if objects expand when exposed to heat, why do objects shrink if there is too much heat?

Question

if objects expand when exposed to heat, why do objects shrink if there is too much heat?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

Can you give an example? Besides something boiling away its water contents shrinking from heat is very rare.

If you’re thinking of cotton clothes in the dryer, the don’t shrink from the heat but from the hot wet tumbling process, where the fabric fibers are sort of wiggled into a tighter weave due to the rough (almost toothlike) texture of the fibers.