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 is in comparison to gasses which can have, molecularly speaking, many times their number squeezed into a tighter space versus having barely any more at all.
As anyone on board a submarine can attest, water very much DOES compress…just not a lot…and it gets really angry and moves really quickly when it decompresses.
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