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When you look at a stretch of railway track, you will notice spaces in between the metal tracks. The reason for this is that metal will expand when it grows warmer, and will shrink when it grows colder.
These gaps allow for the metal to expand, so that when it is an extremely hot day, the railway tracks won't bend all out of shape causing trains to derail.
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