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Magnetism, at its root, arises from two sources:

  1. Electric currents or more generally, moving electric charges create magnetic fields (see Maxwell's Equations).
  2. Many particles have nonzero "intrinsic" (or "spin") magnetic moments. Just as each particle, by its nature, has a certain mass and charge, each has a certain magnetic moment, possibly zero.

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