You want to build a thermometer using a glass tube of diameter 1mm with a receptacle at the end. You fill up the tube to a point where the receptacle is full and the mercury comes to a point somewhere on the tube. If you poured 8.63 cubic centimeters of Hg into the glass tube to get it to this height, at what increments should the degree centigrade marks be made at?

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