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What are drawbacks of the capillary rise method?

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1 It is difficult to measure mean radius .r. over a range of the entire height.
2 The cleaning of such narrow tube is not easy.
3 A correction for the curvature of the surface of liquid in the container is necessary but difficult to determine
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