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In classical Maxwell's equations, electric charge is a source or sink of the electric field, so in vacuum can be nonzero. There is no magnetic-charge source in the same theory: Gauss's law for magnetism is . Magnetic flux entering a closed surface equals the flux leaving it. A magnetic dipole has both polarities; it is not an isolated magnetic monopole.

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