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With a few exceptions (notably melting ice) objects expand when heated. If you run hot water on a bottle neck, the heat is applied directly to the bottle and only indirectly to the stopper inside the bottle, so the bottle heats first, and thereby expands sooner than the stopper does. An expanded bottle will exert less pressure on the stopper.

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