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What electric household items make heat or motion?

EXAMPLE:

Heat: oven

Motion: Fan

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  • 4 years ago
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    Pretty much everything with an electric motor creates at least some heat, and those with resistive coils like an iron create a lot of it (its why they have such heavy duty cords). Refrigerator, oven, stove, microwave, toaster, coffee maker, computer, hot water heater, washer, dryer, dishwasher, mixer, iron, dishwasher, lights, electric toothbrush, electric shaver, hair dryer, phone charger, curling iron, all power tools, ceiling fan, garage door opener, modem, printer, game console, DVD player, garbage disposal, rice cooker, can opener, and television. I'm probably forgetting some.

    Almost all of them have moving parts, or at least a cooling fan, except the stove, oven, toaster, coffee maker, hot water heater, iron, lights, phone charger, curling iron, modem, rice cooker, and TV.

    The dishwasher, dryer, and washing machine have large sprayers, drums, or agitators as well as cooling fans. Computers and game consoles have a hard drive that has moving parts in addition to cooling fans. The toothbrush, shaver, power tools, ceiling fan, garage door opener, garbage disposal, DVD player, and can opener all have electric motors that turn electric energy into mechanical energy.

  • 4 years ago

    Fan also make heat. Oven heat causes motion of air.

    Anything that uses electricity displaces 3.4 btu's per watt/hour. Never more, never less. It may use that energy to move other energy, like a heat pump, or hot water solar heat, or a fan replacing air that has high heat energy with low amounts of heat energy, but the electricity always displaces the same amount of heat per watt.

  • 4 years ago

    refrigerator makes heat. so does hot water heater

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