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Three advantages of using mercury as a thermometric liquid:
(i) Mercury is a good conductor of heat.
(ii) Mercury has a high coefficient of expansion thus is sensitive to the smallest change in temperature.
(iii) Freezing points is very low and the boiling point is high.
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