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Because, when the electric current going into your electromagnet, the coil starts to heat up because the current is going from positive(+) to the coil and from the coil to the negative(-) terminal very fast over and over again but faster and faster, causing the wire the get really hot

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The lots of the wasted energy from appliances are emitted as heat energy and the heat is dissipated into the atmosphere this makes it hot. The rest of the useful energy is transformed to light energy.

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