If water cannot be compressed, how does sound travel through it.

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I thought that sound waves effectively were a series of compressions within the medium they were travelling through. This could well be wrong.

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Sound waves are longitudinal waves, meaning the particles in the medium vibrate back and forth in the same direction as the wave travels.

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