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Why don’t magnets affect gamma rays as they pass over it?

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We may apply Fleming's Left Hand Rule of Electromagnetism to determine how a charged particle behaves in a magnetic field. However, because the gamma rays do not have a charge on them, like alpha particles and beta particles do, they are not deflected.
Gamma rays are electromagnetic waves and its is a characteristic of electromagnetic waves that they have no charge.
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