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The accepted average density of Neptunium is 19.38 g/cm3 (it is radioactive with several isotopes with somewhat different inherent densities)

The average density of Mercury is 13.534 g/cm3

Since Neptunium is more dense than Mercury a sample would be expected to sink in Mercury

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