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An article describes the newest missile defense scheme--75-miles-per-minute space cannonballs.
But because the iron balls and the brass holders had markedly different coefficients of expansion, the pyramids of cannonballs had a tendency to collapse during cold snaps—weather that was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
Beyond the serene courtyard and its statue of Columbus lie a succession of splendid marbled and chandeliered rooms, some housing old cannonballs and coaches, others decked out in gilded furnishings.
5. "These dwarfs may look insubstantial, but they are like cannonballs to a giant galaxy."
If we take a three-inch cannonball on a very hot day, compute its diameter on a very cold day (assuming a drop of 60° C.), and compare this to the contraction of brass for the same drop in temperature, while it is true that the cannonballs will have shrunken twice as much as the brass monkey , the difference for ten balls would be less than a sixteenth of an inch; the pile would not topple even if their diameters were twice as large.