From what I know of Physics, charges have electric fields, and moving charges have magnetic fields. What I didn't really know was whether a positively charged or ionized molecule will have a magnetic field inherently due to orbiting electrons? Do they have a magnetic field even though the molecule may be motionless but the electron fields aren't?
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Ionized particles will create a magnetic field if the particle is moving.
I don't believe that the electrons in an atom create a magnetic field, but I'm not familiar with quantum physics to truely answer. My expectation (perhaps wrong) is that it is incorrect to think of electrons as "orbiting" a nucleus. Instead, the electrons simultaneously exist as a wave function surrounding the nucleus. What we think of as "orbits" represent the probability that if we were to detect the electron, it would be in a particular place.
I'll be checking back on this answer to benefit from other's corrections and amplifications.
A moving ion will have an magnetic field. However, because the charge on the ion is so small, the field itself is also nearly immeasurably small.
As to whether nonmoving atoms generate magnetic fields - atoms do not, because they always have contra-rotating electrons. Ions do, but again - it's pathetically small.
anything charged, and moving, will create a magnetic field. The direction of the field is dictated by the right hand rule.
As in ionized silver creme used for burns and wounds, it has to be in an emulsion to hold it together or it would fly off the skin and not work. It has a weak if non existant field, barely bonds to itself those ionized particulates.
jupiter has a hydrogen core, just a little more mass in jupiter and it would start fusing that hydrogen. the magnetic feilds could be caused by various means no one really knows. in fact no one knows why metal cores cause magnetic feilds. what we do know is there is energy involved in core rotations and that charge through what ever means is manifested in the planet having a feild.
im shite at physics but i think ionized particals react to magnetic fields, but dont create them...
or maybe not lol :]
yes, they have a really small magnetic field though. maybe too small for any significance?
A weak one, if any.