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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Liquids *can* be compressed. They just compress so little, they’re *almost* incompressible by comparison to gas.

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