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Question
A glass stopper has got stuck in the neck of a bottle. How can you remove the stopper without breaking the bottle?
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Solution
We should heat the neck of the bottle because due to heating the neck will expand and loosen the stopper stuck in the neck. In this way, we can easily remove the stopper.
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