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How does running liquid through the compressor in a refridgerator act as a heat exchanger? Does compressing the liquid cool it somehow? What incites the transfer of thermal from an area of medium-energy to another area of medium energy?

by /u/CygnusX-1-2112b in /r/askscience

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