Water floats on mercury because:

water has more density

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mercury has less energy

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mercury has more density

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water is unstable

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Solution

The correct option is C mercury has more density
Less density substance always float on high density substance.here water has density $= 1 g / c c$ and mercury has density $= 13.69$ so,water has low density than mercury,so water floats than mercury.

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