Why can air be compressed but not water?

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Why can air be compressed but not water?

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Water can be compressed, it just needs very high pressures, and then it doesn’t compress very much. Go a mile deep in the ocean, and even at that high pressure it compresses by some fraction of a percent. But if you take liquid water and compress it too much, it turns to ice.

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