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Magnetricity: Monopole-like magnetic charges behave much like electricity

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
February 15, 2011
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 10:47
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Electricity has a new little sister: magnetricity.

A team of physicists in England has created magnetic charges — isolated north and south magnetic poles — and induced them to flow in crystals no bigger than a centimeter across. These moving magnetic charges, which behave almost exactly like electrical charges flowing through batteries and biological systems, could one day be useful in developing “magnetronic” devices — though what such devices would do is anybody’s guess.

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