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CBSE Class 11-science Answered

Please explain
Asked by | 24 Oct, 2008, 08:43: PM
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This is due to the property of surface tension. Water makes an acute angle of contact with glass, so it rises while mercury makes an obtuse angle of contact with glass , so it falls in a capillary tube.

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