What is thermal expansion?

a. The way materials almost always increase their volume as they get warmer.
b. The way materialsalmostalways increase their volume as they get warmer.
c. The universe getting larger as it gets older.
d. The way materials almost always get larger as they get colder.
e. The way almost all materials get larger as heat is exchanged between them and other objects.


b

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