How does freezing water break rocks?

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When drilling a hole into a rock, filling it with water, and freezing it, why does it expand outward to break the rock rather than extrude out of the hole that was drilled?

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Water expands when it freezes. So if water get into cracks of a rock and then it freezes it could break the rock. Same thing as frozen water in a glass jar

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