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It depends on how you define "pressure." In general, pressure is the amount of force applied to a particular area. If you are talking about the pressure the water (or any liquid) applies to its container, hot water is indeed "stronger." This is because the molecules of hotter substances move more rapidly, and in all directions - including "outside." (In fact, this rapid movement of molecules is precisely what temperature is.)

On the other hand, if "inner" pressure is what concerns you, cold water (orcold anything) is stronger, for the converse reason - the molecules are moving more slowly and staying more "together." Hence, cold weather is of a higher pressure than hot.

This phenomenon is naturally related to the two other phases of water - if the water becomes cold enough, its molecules more or less stop moving altogether and it freezes into ice (and no situation is of greater pressure than getting frozen!) whereas if it moves rapidly enough, the molecules' bonds will break apart more or less altogether, and it will evaporate into steam (which has enough pressure to power a locomotive piston!).

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