– Why is water ‘virtually’ incompressible?

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– Why is water ‘virtually’ incompressible?

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Solids and liquids are called “condensed states”

This simply means that all the atoms and molecules are really close to each other so there’s no space to force out to get them closer (i.e. compress them).

In a gas, molecules are really far apart so they are compressible.

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