State the observation made by Oersted on the basis of his experiment with current carrying conductors.
(N/A) Hans Christian Oersted observed that a magnetic compass needle placed near a current-carrying wire gets deflected. This observation led to the conclusion that every current-carrying conductor produces a magnetic field around it.
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