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Gallium expands when it freezes, by about 3%. That might crack something.



I think it's a fair/interesting question. I'd hypothesize the normal heating/cooling and mounting tensions cause variations on the order of 3% or larger mounting strain when you do something as simple as flip the lid open and launch a game. Could be something "cool" for one of those YouTube channels to actually test and find out though.




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