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Is enormously strong compared to gravity. The electric force between two protons , for example is times the gravitational force between them, for any fixed distance

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Like the gravitational force, electromagnetic force acts over large distances and does not need any intervening medium. It is enormously strong compared to gravity. The electric force between two protons, for example, is 1036 times the gravitational force between them, for any fixed distance

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