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An icebox is exactly that - an insulated box, nothing more, nothing less, in which a block of ice was placed to cool the air (and contents). In the age before the electrical refrigerator, the icebox filled the same roll.
A refrigerator is similar in appear and construction of the basic "box", but, rather than rely on a cold substance (ice) to cool the interior air, uses an electric pump to decompress one of several gases (formerly freon, now a variety of similarly-performing gases). These gases are decompressed by the refrigerator's main electrical pump, then piped through the main body of the 'frig. Due to the lower gas pressure, they are endothermic, which means, that as the gas expands back up to normal atmospheric pressure, it absorbs heat. The warm gas is then piped back into the electric pump, which decompresses the gas, in an exothermic reaction. Technically, a refrigerator is a simple heat pump; using the decompression/expansion of the gas to draw heat from inside the refrigerator and expelling that heat out into the surrounding air.
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Before the refrigerator?
Ice box
What was the real name of the refrigerator?
ice box
What is the old fashion way to say refrigerator?
Ice Box
How is the refrigerator an improvement from the ice box?
The ice box had to be regularly restocked with ice to keep cool, while the frdge only needs to be plugged into a socket.
In refrigerator why are the freezer always located at top?
When refrigerators were first produced they didn't make their own ice. They were wood and called ice boxes. Blocks of ice were delivered every day or two to peoples homes and businesses. The ice box looked like a box and the top of the box was where the ice was put so it could keep the things below it cold. Thus, the shape was born of our modern refrigerator and for the most part it has stayed the same.
Something found in a kitchen that begins with the letter L?
light-bulb, lighter, ladle, large tables, lettuce,
What was the first refrigerator called?
No one really knows since when a refrigerator started being called a fridge. A scientific reason for this abbreviation does not exist, only the natural tendency to shorten words.
What is the difference between a refrigerator and a freezer?
An ice box is literally what it says it is, a box that has ice in it. The ice kept the food cool and it had to be replaced on a regular basis, usually daily. A refrigerator uses a compressor and gas cycle to keep the contents cold.
What happens if in a drunken stupor you accidentally use your refrigerator as a urinal?
The light comes on and you can see what you are doing. The following day you will find a layer of yellow ice in the ice box.
What is a icebox?
An icebox is a type of refrigerator. It is a chilled box that is used to keep things cold. Ice boxes are kept cold with large blocks of ice that keep the food cold.
How do you make a refrigerator in doodle god?
Ice and mechanism make a refrigerator.
What did people use before the refrigerator was invented during the great depression?
It was called an "Ice Box." Think of a large camping ice chest, but larger and made of metal or wood. "Icemen" would deliver large chunks of ice and place the ice on a rack at the bottom of the "ice box" above a catch drain pan. The food was stored in the top part of the box and as the ice block melted, cool water was collected in the drain pan. that's what i meant
