Expand the ring first-order language by a new constant and consider
Every finite subset is satisfiable in the integer ring itself. Only finitely many divisibility conditions occur; interpret as a nonzero common multiple of their positive integer indices, using if none occur. All first-order sentences from are automatically true there.
Compactness theorem therefore gives a first-order model. Its reduct to the original ring first-order language satisfies the complete theory of , so . Its element is nonzero and divisible by every positive standard integer. Thus
Such an element cannot be an ordinary nonzero integer, since an integer of absolute value less than cannot be a nonzero multiple of . The statement concerns each standard integer index separately; it does not assert divisibility by every internally nonzero element of .

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