eli5: Why is water the only substance that explands when it freezes?

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eli5: Why is water the only substance that explands when it freezes?

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Imagine that you have a box of matches and you start glueing them by their ends. Something simillar happens to the water: if I’m not misremembering, when water mollecules freeze they create hexagons, which are bigger in comparison

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