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Radio 4,3 mins

Why your cooker clock slowly drifts from real time

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Some quirky facts about how electricity differs across the world, why some countries have more complicated systems than others, and what the frequency of our electricity supply can mean for our cooker clock. Keith Bell explains. First broadcast on BBC Inside Science, 15 August 2019.

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