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Does metal shatter if cold enough?

In movies or shows where the character has ice powers or a ice based weapon they can freeze stuff like metal and break through it easily causing the metal to shatter like glass. Is this scientifically accurate? And if so would the same apply to rock, wood, or people?
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xmedleft · 51-55, M
anything that can be moved into a crystalline condition or anything that can have molecular motion stopped or slowed can shatter like that. Freezing things is about slowing or reducing energy -- during which molecular motion would slow.