Abstract
It is shown that the magnetic moment μ is a conserved quantity not only in MHD, but also in general electrodynamics under certain not very restrictive conditions. The propagation of magnetic moment from a regionD with an evolving current system (e.g., due to dynamo action) is discussed for the two cases of vacuum and a conducting medium, respectively, surrounding D. In the case of vacuum, the MHD approximation no longer holds and the weak electromagnetic wave emitted from D is important, as was pointed out by Sokoloff (1997). In the case of an unbounded conducting medium, the classical definition of μ is generalised and μ is shown to propagate diffusively, undisturbed by the newly generated magnetic field.
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