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A student was measuring the capillary rise of a liquid to calculate its surface tension. In his calculation, he subtracted the level of the meniscus of the liquid in the cylinder twice, would this mistake lead to an incorrectly high or incorrectly low calculated surface tension?

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it leads to an incorrect high calculated surface tension

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