Why can air be compressed but liquids can’t?

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Why can air be compressed but liquids can’t?

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Liquids are already compressed. If you take an amount of liquid and let it boil off to gas, the volume of gas will be much much greater than the original amount of liquid. This is how steam power works, and why tanks of liquid gas are so dangerous.

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