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Mystery #4Tier 2air pressure / suction

Why does a vacuum cleaner suck things up?

Switch on a vacuum cleaner and crumbs, dust and bits of fluff leap up off the carpet and vanish into the machine, as if it were reaching out an invisible hand to grab them. But a vacuum cleaner has no hand, no magnet, and nothing that reaches out of its nozzle. So how does it 'suck' your mess up from a distance?

A vacuum cleaner, it lowers the pressure inside so outside air rushes in, carrying dust.
Photo: Wartburg1973 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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A vacuum cleaner has nothing reaching out of it, so what pulls the dust in?

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