if u filled a metal box made from steal full of water and froze it would the metal break?

Answer 1

This is a physics question. It depends on the thickness and what type of steel and how it is sealed - most would break.

Answer 2

Yes it would surely break "IF" there is no room at the top for the water to expand . Water is powerful when frozen and breaks concrete or glass etc when frozen . Try putting a can of coke in the freezer or a bottle of water .

Answer 3

Yes, the water expanding as it freezes would break the box, even of the hardest steel.

Answer 4

Yes.

When water turns to ice it expands. Either the box would be so strong that the water couldn't expand (and wouldn't turn to ice - so not frozen) or it would rip apart.

Answer 5

yep!
kinda like if you set off a firecracker on the floor and it just bangs pathetically, but if you put it in something, like an apple, the apple gets blown to little bits....

i'm really not a psycho, just mis-spent youth!

Answer 6

no! water contracts when it freezes (to make a solid all the atoms and stuff have to squeeze up together!) - but if somehow you turned the water to gas inside an air tight box something is gonna happen.

Answer 7

i dont know, what i also dont know is why you put this question in the psychology category, surely its a science question, not anything to do with your mind!

Answer 8

As our American cousins would say "Yes I guess"

Answer 9

yes, you would probably burst a seam





p.s. oh kc, kc, kc....nope; back to science class for you.

Answer 10

it would expand