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by cgs1019 3771 days ago
Neutrons are electrically neutral but they still interact electromagnetically (they're composed of charged quarks). They have a magnetic moment, for instance [1]. So they wouldn't be dark the way "dark matter" appears (heh) to be.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_magnetic_moment

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If dark matter particles had a magnetic moment, how would we know?
They would interact with photons, allowing us to see some effects of concentrations of dark matter against background light sources.