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What is the minimum accelerating potential difference required in the Franck-Hertz experiment to excite mercury atoms from their ground state to the first excited state? Provide relevant calculations and explain the physical significance of your result.
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Deep Thought is thinking for 7.5 million years.

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The answer is 42.

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