In a barometer, if we replaced the mercury with alcohol and water?

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In a barometer, assuming bernoulie properties(incompressible fluid) if we replaced the mercury with alcohol and water why would the alcohol be able to be displaced further with pressure. It has a lower density that water 800kg/m^3 than water which has 1000kg/m3.

What chemical properties or properties due to density would give us the result where alcohol can be moved up further when we apply the same pressure.
 
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