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It has the property that .

Its magnitude is related to the angle between and by the identity

The space and product form an algebra over a field, which is not commutative nor associative, but is a Lie algebra with the cross product being the Lie bracket. Specifically, the space together with the product, is isomorphic to the Lie algebra of three-dimensional rotations,

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