Why is water said to be “incompressible” when sound can travel through it? Doesn’t sound imply compressions and rarefactions?
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It’s like throwing a tiny packet of salt into a lake and saying “the salt did nothing”. It did but it’s such a tiny difference you would need crazy high tech equipment to measure.
It including all liquids and solids are compressible but it’s by such a tiny amount that it’s not worth taking into consideration for most applications.
Water at 1000psi compresses about 0.5%.
Water at 15,000psi (bottom of the deepest ocean) compresses around 5%.
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