Today I had a thought. If water expands when it freezes, what would happen if you were to fill an unbreakable box 100% with water and freeze it. Meaning The water, by nature, must expand but cannot because of limited space. what would happen?
A few questions and Ideas brought up by a few people I asked this question:
1. Would the water simply not freeze?
2. Is there such a material that would not be broken by the expanding water?
3. Would the water, in attempting to expand and being unable to, create heat, stop expanding (and cool down), and then repeat the process?
I know very little of the properties of water, or why it expands, so maybe this is just a ridiculous thought.
The idea is that this box would be in a place where energy is not required to generate low temperatures (e.g space?)
Thank you!