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What physical property of liquids and solids causes the speed of sound in them to be to be so much greater than the speed of sound in air?
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Because of their density, sound waves in the air travel more quickly through the solid and liquid mediums. The energy of a compression wave (such as a sound wave) must pass from atom to atom, which makes the more tightly packed atoms of non-gascious mediums more efficient in transferring sound.
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