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Mystery #4Tier 2forces circular-motion water

How does a spinning drum get the water out of your wet clothes?

A washing machine finishes by spinning the drum incredibly fast. Your clothes go in dripping wet and come out merely damp, and the water has vanished down the drain. The drum never squeezed or wrung anything. So how does spinning alone get the water out of your clothes?

A close-up inside a stainless steel washing machine drum, its curved wall covered in thousands of small holes.
Photo: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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