when you put a mercury thermometer into hot tea, the mercury rises. What is happening to the mercury as it get's hotter, to make it rise up into the thin tube?

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User: when you put a mercury thermometer into hot tea, the mercury rises. What is happening to the mercury as it get's hotter, to make it rise up into the thin tube?

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As the mercury gets hotter, it expands, taking up more space, which causes it to rise up into the thin tube of the thermometer.

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