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Explain the following:
A glass bottle completely filled with water and tightly closed at room temperature, is likely to burst when kept in the freezer of a refrigerator.
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Answer
Due to the anomalous nature of water it expands when the temperature goes below 4°C inside the freezer. As the glass bottle is completely filled with water and tightly closed, so there is no space for the water to expand and hence the bottle bursts.
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