Integers do not form Field/Examples

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Examples of Use of Integers do not form Field

Example: $2$

Take $2$, for example.

In the field of rational numbers, we have that $2 \times \dfrac 1 2 = 1$ and so $2$ has an inverse in $\Q$.

But that inverse is not in $\Z$.