Module with Torsion elements over a ring with no zero divisors

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I would like an example of the following: a ring $R$ with no zero-divisors and an $R$-module with a torsion element. Clearly if $R$ has zero-divisors then any $R$-module will have a torsion element. What I wonder is if one can have torsion elements even when $R$ has no zero divisors.

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Any finite abelian group is a torsion $\mathbb Z$-module. Also, consider any integral domain $R$, and let $a\in R$ be a nonzero, nonunit element. Then the ring $R/(a)$ is a torsion $R$-module.