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A refrigerator, like the one found in modern homes, is a device that extracts heat energy from a colder source to a heat reservoir. Although this seems to violate the second law of thermodynamics, there is work done in order to transfer the heat and this process is not spontaneous. The efficiency of a refrigerator is thus defined as the amount of heat transferred per unit work done.

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