Why is water said to be “incompressible” when sound can travel through it? Doesn’t sound imply compressions and rarefactions?

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Why is water said to be “incompressible” when sound can travel through it? Doesn’t sound imply compressions and rarefactions?

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Saying that water in incompressible is an approximation. Everything can be compressed– some things (gases) more than others (liquids).

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