Mercury has low boiling point. Therefore it can be purified by the process of:

liquation

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polling

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oxidation

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distillation

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Solution

The correct option is D distillation
Mercury has a low boiling point. Therefore it can be purified by the process of distillation because then mercury will evaporate and collected in pure form and impurities will remain back.

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