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Submitted by Anti-Habeeb (View user info) at 2005-07-22 18:53:50 EDT
YESSS!!!
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How Air Conditioners Work
by Marshall Brain
The Basic Idea
An air conditioner is basically a refrigerator without the insulated box. It uses the evaporation of a refrigerant, like Freon, to provide cooling. The mechanics of the Freon evaporation cycle are the same in a refrigerator as in an air conditioner. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online, the term Freon is generically "used for any of various nonflammable fluorocarbons used as refrigerants and as propellants for aerosols."
This is how the evaporation cycle in an air conditioner works (See How Refrigerators Work for complete details on this cycle):
1. The compressor compresses cool Freon gas, causing it to become hot, high-pressure Freon gas (red in the diagram above).
2. This hot gas runs through a set of coils so it can dissipate its heat, and it condenses into a liquid.
3. The Freon liquid runs through an expansion valve, and in the process it evaporates to become cold, low-pressure Freon gas (light blue in the diagram above).
4. This cold gas runs through a set of coils that allow the gas to absorb heat and cool down the air inside the building.
Mixed in with the Freon is a small amount of a lightweight oil. This oil lubricates the compressor.
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WOO!
GO FREON WOO!
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Submitted by Yams (user info) at 2005-08-09 19:40:46 EDT (#)
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If I must, I must. And I must.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-07-23 21:43:58 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/71523 <- D-PRIME Madness begins; your title is here.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2005-07-22 19:27:51 EDT (#)
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+2 LIVE SAUCE
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2005-07-22 19:26:31 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-07-22 19:13:51 EDT (#)
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Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2005-07-22 19:10:24 EDT (#)
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I'm mister cold miser. I'm mister snow.
I'm mister cold miser. I'm miser 40 below.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-07-22 19:10:08 EDT (#)
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I can't help it, I laughed.
Submitted by PokeyPecker (user info) at 2005-07-22 19:05:11 EDT (#)
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Not true.
Not true at all.
You, sir, are indeed going to die.
Submitted by Skullcrusher (user info) at 2005-07-22 18:59:58 EDT (#)
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You sir, are worse then Hitler. You are like Hitler, Stalin, and the Japanese guy that had Pearl Harbor bombed rolled into one.
Submitted by Biznochizzle (user info) at 2005-07-22 18:59:21 EDT (#)
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BECAUSE I HAVE FOILED BEEB'S PLANS!!
http://www.ubersite.com/m/71429
Submitted by w_t_a_y_s_t_r_m (user info) at 2005-07-22 18:56:45 EDT (#)
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I wish I knew why I was +2ing this
Submitted by ChristPuncher (user info) at 2005-07-22 18:56:41 EDT (#)
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hOW DARE YOU
YOU HAVE FOILED MY PLANS