The change in temperature of a body causes expansion or contraction of that body. Most of the substances expand on heating and contract on cooling. This is called thermal expansion. It has been ...

The remarkable framework flexibility is one of the most important advantages of porous coordination polymers (PCPs) or metal–organic frameworks, which allows the host structures to be altered by ...

I VENTURE to call attention to a simple and effective way of demonstrating the linear expansion of solids when heated, first suggested, I believe, by M. Kapoustine (Journal de Physique, December 1883, ...

Most solids expand when heated, a familiar phenomenon with many practical implications. Among the rare exceptions to this rule, the compound zirconium tungstate stands out by virtue of the enormous ...

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