Hi!
My daughter has been pondering on something mysterious and the adults around her hasn´t provided any satisfactory answers at all. So she wanted me to ask the internet.
When we dry fabrics in the dry-tumbler the duvet cover more often than not swallows parts of the accompanying clothes and sheets, forcing us to turn it inside out to get to them.
“It´s just going round, round and the water goes out so why does it eat everything?
(My suggestion of dry-tumbler gnomes was quickly and rudely rejected)
In: Physics
A dryer is usually a big round drum. Some people use other kinds of dryers. Most dryers are machines with round drums. The bottom area of a drum might act like a basket or bowl. The big sheet of duvet is like a butterfly net. The clothes are like butterflies. When the drum spins the clothes that are at the bottom, they toss up like butterflies. The duvet which has become like a net gets them caught in the messy folds of the duvet. When clothes are wet and heavier they get caught easier, and then they make more messy rumples in the duvet. More things get caught. Then all the fabrics dry and they might stick to each other easier too, because of static. Static happens when different fabrics rub together. The water dries from the clothes. The dry clothes warm and dry out the air. Fabric can become like refrigerator magnates, where they easily stick together.
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