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Why do cold drink bottles breaks when kept in freezer?

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Water has an amazing property, like other substances it contracts when cooled but only up to 4 degree Celsius after that, on further cooling it starts expanding. When it reaches the freezing point water expands nearly 9% whereas the cold drink bottles keeps on contracting. Due to lack of space for the expansion in volume ice, the bottle breaks.

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