About 50 mL of water is poured into a metal container.  It is then heated.  When it boils, it is removed from the heat and the container is sealed with a rubber stopper.  When the container cools, it implodes.  Explain why this happened, using the kinetic molecular theory for gases and the gas laws

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 About 50 mL of water is poured into a metal container.  It is then heated.  When it boils, it is removed from the heat and the container is sealed with a rubber stopper.  When the container cools, it implodes.  Explain why this happened, using the kinetic molecular theory for gases and the gas laws

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