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An aluminum tank of volume 0.0300 m3 is filled to the top with mercury at 20.0 °C. The tank is placed inside a chamber with an interior temperature of 70.0 °C. The coefficient of volume expansion for mercury is 1.82 × 10-4/C°; and the coefficient of linear expansion of aluminum is 23.0 × 10-6/C°. After the tank and its contents reach thermal equilibrium with the interior of the chamber, how much mercury has spilled?


A) 2.52 × 10-5 m3
B) 6.60 × 10-5 m3
C) 1.69 × 10-4 m3
D) 1.92 × 10-4 m3
E) 2.00 × 10-4 m3

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