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Technological breakthrough

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I’ll bet you hardly ever consider your fridge.  That appliance is actually a pretty sophisticated heat pump apparatus.  With the inclusion of a refrigerant (like Freon), this box (mostly a thin veneer covering loads and loads of insulation) manages to keep the contents around 3 to 5 C, thereby diminishing the ability of microbes to grow and spoil our food.

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