Hot Coffee Is Poured into a Cylindrical Container Until It

question 20

Multiple Choice

Hot coffee is poured into a cylindrical container until it is nearly full. The container is immediately sealed by stretching a rubber balloon across the container mouth and tightly sealing the edges. Twenty minutes later, you observe that the still intact rubber seal

• A) has bulged outward in the center of the mouth of the container.
• B) is still flat across the entire mouth of the container.
• C) has bulged outward only at the edges of the container mouth.
• D) has sagged inward toward the coffee.

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