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Grade 11General Physics

Explain the general feature of earth’s magnetic field?

Profile image of Jayant Kumar
12 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Saurabh Koranglekar
6 Years ago
TheEarth's magnetic fieldis mostly caused by electric currents in the liquid outer core. TheEarth'score is hotter than 1043 K, the Curie point temperature above which the orientations of spins within iron become randomized. Such randomization causes the substance to lose its magnetization