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Physics Hypertextbook

The Physics Hypertextbook: Refrigerators

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a detailed discussion about how refrigerators work. Also includes a history of the invention of refrigerators, and the physics behind how they work.
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Especial Gas Inc.: Chlorofluorocarbons Cfc's

For Students 9th - 10th
Especial Gas Inc. provides a good description of what CFCs are and the dates that countries started to ban them. Explains where the name freon came from.
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Advanced Thermoelectric: Fundamental Thermoelectrics

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the scientific principles (the Peltier effect) and the reliability and operation of thermoelectric modules. Includes a link to several other pages, one of which contains an animation of their operation.