What happens to any current carrying conducter so that it starts behaving like a magnet on passing electric current through it?

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The reason behind it is that a moving charge or a current sets up or creates a magnetic field in the space surrounding it. That's why the current carrying conductor behaves as a magnet. This shows that the magnetic field is associated with a current carrying wire.

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