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Does water freeze when it expands?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 9/17/2019

Yes. Water is one of the few substances on earth that does expand when frozen most other things expand when heated.

The hydrogen bonds between the hydrogen and oxygen atoms straighten and the water molecule expands.

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