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How heavy is murcury(liquid meatal)? Why does it expand?


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Mercury weighs 13.6 grams per cubic-centimeter. It expands with rising temperatures the same as any other liquid (or solid) - the molecules move around faster and hit one another more often, and so drive one another further apart on average.

Arthur Smith


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