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Question
Give reasons for the following:
When boiling water is poured into a glass bottle, it generally cracks.
Solution
When boiling water is poured into a glass bottle, it generally cracks because on pouring hot water in the bottle the inner surface heats up and expands more as compared to its outer surface. This unequal expansion between the two surfaces causes a strain and the bottle cracks.
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