Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What is the link between water shrinking and the LHC? 🤔

The second season of the CERN-Solvay Education Programme starts with an episode on thermal contraction.

Did you know that cooling things down also shrinks them? In this video, we show that with some fun tinkering this actually happens to hot water when it is cooled down.

Check out the dedicated page on our website to go further: https://cern.ch/water-shrinking

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