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of course you have a wide range temperature range left unspecified, but generally as far as the physics of any metal (with variations) would indeed expand in both length and width by a small fraction of an inch. the problem often is that when metal heats then cools rapidly it will inevitably crack - Matt

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Q: What happens when you heat a metal pipe?
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