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Very well, actually.

Solids and liquids do not expand or compress very well at all. Whereas gases do.

This is why we can use pistons and hydraulics, since liquids and solids do not compress much at all under pressure, unlike a gas.

Essentially, they are extremely similar in this respect.

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When a solid expands, its particles move further apart from each other, causing an increase in volume. In contrast, when a liquid expands, its particles are already more loosely packed than those in a solid, so the expansion leads to a small increase in volume but not as significant as that of a solid.

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