Why is water incompressible?

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Why is water incompressible?

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It isn’t literally, more just for all practical purposes. The pressure required to compress a liquid is much greater than an equal volume of a gas because at the molecular level, the particles are already very close together. In order to force them closer, a vast and impractical amount of pressure would be required. It’s not impossible physically, just mostly impractical and unnecessary for most applications.

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