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Digital ACT Science Practice Question #1847

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If liquid mercury (which has cohesive forces far stronger than adhesive forces to glass) were used instead of water: Experiment Context (Capillary Rise of Water in Glass Tubes): Physics students immersed clean vertical borosilicate glass capillary tubes of varying internal diameters (d) into a basin of dyed water at 20°C: Table 31: - d = 0.20 mm: Equilibrium height h = 148.0 mm - d = 0.40 mm: Equilibrium height h = 74.0 mm - d = 0.80 mm: Equilibrium height h = 37.0 mm - d = 1.60 mm: Equilibrium height h = 18.5 mm - d = 3.20 mm: Equilibrium height h = 9.2 mm
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Cohesion > adhesion causes capillary depression.

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Mercury exhibits capillary depression (convex meniscus) because cohesive forces exceed adhesion to glass....

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