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Why do cold drinks bottles break when kept in freezer?

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

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