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Your cotton T-shirt smells when you take it out of the clothes dryer. Explain why.

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When the T-shirt comes out of the clothes dryer, it is so warm that molecules from the detergent and fabric soft ener are likely to have changed phase and become gases. When they reach your nose, you are able to smell them.

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