The atmosphere around the earth is held because of ___ force.

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The atmosphere around the earth is held because of gravitational force or gravity. This is the attractive force existing between any two objects. It is a universal force, every object in the universe experience this force due to other objects. Larger objects always exert this force on smaller objects.

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