Fill a thin walled plastic bottle with water to the brim. Cap the mouth of bottle
tightly and keep it in the freezer compartment of a fridge for a day. What do you observe?
You will find that the plastic bottle gets cracked.
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Yes, it may crack. Glasses have very low elastic deformation and the freezing of water increases it's volume, the increased volume causes tension to the glass that may lead it to crack. However, the cracking also depends on the quantity of water in the glass bottle.
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