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No it expands, that's why soda cans sometimes explode if you freeze them.

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Q: When water freezes does it contracts?
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When water freezes it contracts?

yes


True or false water contracts when it freezes causing frost wedging?

False, water expands when it freezes.


What is thermal expasion?

Its when a liquid freezes and expands or contracts. Ex. Water when it freezes has more mass than the liquid


What thermal expasion?

Its when a liquid freezes and expands or contracts. Ex. Water when it freezes has more mass than the liquid


When water freezes it contracts true or false?

It is false. Water expands on freezing.


Which liquids expand on cooling?

I think that only water expands when it freezes everything else contracts


What is unusual about the behavior of water when it freezes?

It actually expands, instead of contracts, for a few degrees below the freezing point.


What does a solid do when it contracts?

When a solid freezes, it contracts making the molecules inside get closer together which makes the volume smaller.


When water changes into ice it expands or contracts?

When water freezes and becomes ice it expands. That's why if you put a glass of water into the freezer the water would overflow because the water would have nowhere to go except the top.


When water becomes solid what happens to its size?

The water which was originally in a liquid stage, turns into a solid when it freezes. The particles in the water come closer together, therefore, the water contracts. This is not true. Most liquids do this when they freeze but water expaneds.


Does water expand?

When it freezes.


What will happen of you put oobleck in the freezer?

It freezes solid but does not expands nor contracts.