Does a set with the following properties hold?

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Does there exist an infinite subset, $S$, of the real numbers such that both of the following are true:

  1. $\forall a,b\in S, \exists c\in S$ such that $a+b=c$
  2. $\forall c \in S, \exists a,b \in S$ such that $ab\neq c$

My suspicion is that such a set does not exist, but I'm not entirely sure. I know that the real numbers are closed under both addition and multiplication, but I'm not sure if this will help.