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If you place a sample of metal at room temperature at 25 degrees C into a cubic container, which metal would assume a cubic shape?a) mercuryb) hydrogenc) chromiumd) brominee) tungsten

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Remember that liquids can assume the shape of any container. In this case, you can realize that the unique metal that can do this is mercury because, at ambient temperature which is 25 °C, mercury is liquid. Their boiling point is very high to evaporate and the other metals aren't liquid at this temperature so they couldn't assume the cubic shape.

The answer is a.

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