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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The phrase “liquids can’t be compressed” is only approximately true. They absolutely can, just by a much, much smaller magnitude than gases can

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