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Well think about it, while Mercury is liquid, all its poles are messed up and scattered because the poles within the liquid will naturally want to align themselves with their opposites causing a cancellation of its magnetism. When it is frozen solid, the poles have no way of rearranging themselves, so therefore mercury can only be magnetic in its solid form.

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