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Calculate the capillary depression of Hg in a tube of diameter 1.0 mm. Assume that the contact angle is zero. The density of Hg is `13.6 xx 10^3 kg m^(-3)` and the surface tension of Hg is `0.460 Nm^(-1)`.

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`1.38 xx 10^(-2)m`
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