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When water freezes into ice, it undergoes a curious transformation. Most would expect that anything that gets colder, should contract. Water doesn’t behave that way. It expands and it does it with considerable force. It exerts approximately 2,000 pounds of force outwards when it freezes. Hence…a broken pipe.
