Eli5, Why is chewing so much louder with earplugs in?

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..When wearing earplugs eating an apple is really loud.. even when wearing earphones and a normal volume is being played, earting is still loud?

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Your jaw bones help conduct sound to your ears, this is why your voice sounds different to you than it does to other people. The earplugs enhance this conduction by filling empty space, thus amplify the sound. When Beethoven was losing his hearing, he would, now famously, bite his piano to take advantage of this property of hearing.

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