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Refrigerator

The refrigerator contains internal parts like refrigerant, compressor, condenser, and evaporator to cool the interior. It also has external parts like shelves, drawers, handles and more for food storage. Refrigerators are made of layered insulation sandwiched between an interior plastic lining and an outer metal shell. Components of the cooling system use materials like aluminum, copper and steel for their conductive properties, while other parts like trays and drawers are made from durable plastics.

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Refrigerator

The refrigerator contains internal parts like refrigerant, compressor, condenser, and evaporator to cool the interior. It also has external parts like shelves, drawers, handles and more for food storage. Refrigerators are made of layered insulation sandwiched between an interior plastic lining and an outer metal shell. Components of the cooling system use materials like aluminum, copper and steel for their conductive properties, while other parts like trays and drawers are made from durable plastics.

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Refrigerator

Internal Parts
 Refrigerant
 Compressor
 Condenser
 Expansive Valve or the Capillary
 Evaporator/Chiller/Freezer
 Temperature control device or Thermostat
 Defrost System
External Parts
 Freezer Compartment
 Thermostat Control
 Refrigerator Compartment
 Crisper
 Refrigerator door compartment
 Switch
 Glass cover
 Door shelf
 Ice cube tray
 Guard rail
 Storage door
 Shelf channel
 Handle
 Meat keeper
 Magnetic gasket
 Dairy compartment
 Door stop

A typical refrigerator body has three layers. The core, which is made of sheet metal, is
sandwiched between an interior cabinet, which is usually made of polystyrene plastic, and an
outer shell, made of stainless steel, plastic or sometimes painted sheet metal. Packed inside
these layers is the insulation, which was absent in the earliest models but is standard equipment
in contemporary ones.
The insulation that fills the gap between the inner and outer cabinets consists of fiberglass or
polyfoam.
The components of the cooling system (compressor, condenser, coils, fins) are made of
aluminum, copper, or an alloy. The tubing is usually copper, because of that metal's ductility
—its ability to bend without breaking.
The coils that conduct refrigerant from the compressor to the expansion valve into the
evaporative coils and back to the compressor are made of copper. It has one of the best thermal
conductivities of any metal, and it’s malleable enough to form into tubing. The expansion valve
is usually made of brass, and the coil system is often supported by a steel grid. The compressor
is a metal pump, and the exhaust fan has metal rotors and fins made of thin sheet metal. All the
coil connectors are brass.
When you open the refrigerator door, you usually must give it a little tug, and that's because you
must break the airtight seal the rubber gasket forms between the door and the inner cabinet.
Modern refrigerators don't have the locking handles that their forebears did, and the gasket is
responsible for keeping the door closed. To this end, the rubber may be blended with a
ferromagnetic metal that holds the door firmly against a steel strip, which may be hidden
behind the plastic interior lining.
The trays inside the cabinet are usually made of glass, and they sit on metal or plastic supports
or on ridges molded into the interior lining. Drawers are molded from plastic, and the handles
may be metal or, on less expensive models, plastic. If the freezer compartment is inside the
refrigerator, it usually has a thin metal door to keep the freezer separated from the refrigerator,
and an inexpensive plastic fan circulates air between the two compartments.
Refrigerators equipped with an ice maker have a plastic box in the freezer to hold the ice, while
the ice maker has fins made from thin sheet metal. Models with water dispensers require tubing
to conduct the water, and these are usually made of polybutylene or, on older models, copper.

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