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A tube is placed vertically in a beaker of salt water with aspecific gravity of 1.15. The interfacial tension between the airand the water is 32 mN/m and the contact angle is 30 degrees,calculate:

a) Capillary pressure in psi if the tube diameter is 0.0001cm.

b) Capillary rise of water in tube.

c) If the cap rock thickness is 2ft, do you think this will stopwater migration?

d) Radius in inches of the largest pore, if the displacementpressure is 25 kPa.

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