I will downvote the wrong answer. Kindly solve if you are 100% sure   A water column in a glass tube is used to measure the pres sure in a pipe. The tube is 1/2 in. in diameter. How much of the water column is due to surface-tension effects? What would be the surface-tension effects

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A water column in a glass tube is used to measure the pres sure in a pipe. The tube is 1/2 in. in diameter. How much of the water column is due to surface-tension effects? What would be the surface-tension effects if the tube were 1/8 in. or 1/16 in. in diameter?

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