For example pure silicon doesn't expand in a given range of temperature.
Also a mixture of amorphous and crystalline quartz has a thermal expansion coefficient near zero ("Zerodur" from Schott).
But the majority of materials suffer thermal expansion.
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They expand ------- No, normally metals expand when heated.
no, cuz there is a thing called the expansivity of a substance that tells us how much a particular substance will expand over 1 degree change in temprature
compound as it decomposed into two separate things.
Its very unusual for a substance to expand when it freezes, water is just odd that way. Its just a property of water, its moleucles expand in the area they take up and take up more space.
Liquids expand more than solids on heating