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The mechanical vibrations that can be interpreted as sound can travel through all forms of matter: gases, liquids, solids, and plasmas. However, sound cannot propagate through vacuum. The matter that supports the sound is called the medium. The liqid can be water. There the speed of sound is faster than in air. How does sound in air differ from sound in water? http://www.dosits.org/science/ssea/3.htm

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sounds are vibrations; they travel thru water like they travel thru air- waves

**Sound travels in mechanical waves. A mechanical wave is a disturbance that moves and transports energy from one place to another through a medium. In sound, the disturbance is a vibrating object. And the medium can be any series of interconnected and interactive particles. This means that sound can travel through gases, liquids and solids.

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Sound travels much faster through liquid than it travels through gas, becasue the molecules are much more compact in liquid than gas. This also apllies to solids; sound travels much faster through solids than it does liquid or gas.

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Same way as it traverses in air. That is, as longitudinal waves. Compression and rarefaction

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Sound waves are the movement of energy

within molecules.

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well, I've been told that it travels through water at about 3400mph.

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The water makes waves and the hairs sway.

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