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What phase of matter expands and contracts the most when heated and cooled and which expands the least?
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What is the thermometric property used in a mercury thermometer?
Not just a property of liquid but of all matter. All matter expands when heated and contracts when cooled, in thermometers the liquid, usually an alcohol, expands when heated lengthening the little line.
Do any matter expand when cooled and contract when heated?
Sort of. In the temperature range of 0-4 Degrees Celsius water contracts when heated and expands when cooled. Outside of this temperature range it behaves normally.
When matter is heated does it contract?
No, when matter becomes heated it always expands, meanwhile when matter becomes cool it always contracts.
Does matter expands or contrast when heated?
Matter usually expands when heated.
What does matter do when it is heated?
Matter expands when it is heated.
Does matter contract or expand when heated?
Matter expands when it is heated.
What does most matter do when heated?
Most matter EXPANDS when heatedmost matter expands when heated
Does matter expand or contract when heated up?
Matter expands when it is heated.
What is the enlargement of matter when heated?
It expands.
What state of matter expands with cold and contracts with heat?
Well, solids. For example, when you heat up metal is expands and when you freeze it, it contracts
What is the unusual behaviour of water when cooled below 4ºC?
Most matter contracts as it gets colder. Water is one of the few substance that expands (from 4 degrees Centigrade to 0).
Matter expands or contracts to fill the space available?
Liquid Not liquids,gases.
