Talk:Right-hand screw rule

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 Definition Associates the direction of an electric current with the direction of the magnetic force lines encircling the current. [d] [e]
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Why not left?

I'll bite: do scientists have any explanation why the direction is not left? --Larry Sanger 12:25, 16 July 2008 (CDT)