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Gravity is a force of attraction only.

Newton's law describes only an inverse square attraction, which is different than the inverse square law of electric charge which allows both attraction and repulsion.

Within the theory of general relativity, gravity has a different interpretation as curvature of space-time, but that is not essential to the present question.

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