How Clothes Dryers Work - HowStuffWorks
Clothes dryers have: A rotating tumbler that holds the clothes. An electric or gas powered heater that heats the air that is drawn through the clothes as they tumble, which in turn heats up the clothes and the water in them. An exhaust vent that passes out of the dryer and out of the house -- this is how the water exits the dryer in the form of ...
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