Why is water incompressible?

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Why is water incompressible?

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No. Water as with all materials can be compressed. But it is far less compressible than gasses, such that with normal pressures it isn’t useful to consider how much it changes in volume.

You can know that water can be compressed because sound waves exist within water. Since sound is a pressure wave you know by extension water must be able to be compressed by some amount.

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