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प्रश्न
Why do we prefer to wear white or light coloured clothes in summer and black or dark coloured clothes in winter ?
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उत्तर
We prefer to wear white clothes in summer. The reason is that the white clothes reflects most of the sun’s heat and absorb very little of the sun’s heat, thus they keep our body cool.
We prefer to wear black and dark coloured clothes in winter. The reason is that the black or dark colour clothes absorb most of the sun’s heat and keep our body warm
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