which two metals contract more when cooled?
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When it is cold the kinetic energy decreases, so the atoms take up less space and the material contracts. Some metals expand more than others due to differences in the forces between the atoms / molecules.
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gold is one of the metals which expand on heating and contract on cooling.
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