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Water: Properties and Importance

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What happens when water freezes?

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Its size increases.
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When water freezes, its size (volume) increases. This is one of the reasons for the bursting of water pipeline in winter because when water freezes, it converts into ice and increases in size. Water is one of the few substances that expand on cooling.

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