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When no current flows through a conductor, a magnetic field is produced across it

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True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is B
False

Henry Oersted stated that when current flows in a conductor a magnetic field is produced across it, and that effect lasts as long as current is flowing through the conductor. Hence the given statement is false.

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