Gases
It travels fastest through solids, slowest through gases, and liquids are in the middle.
a gas or the air (a mixture of gases)
sound will travel through air (gas), the slowest. Because the molecule sin the air are farther apart. Actually rubber it will travel through rubber the slowest. Air is second slowest then water and then granite was all I learned . Also Saltwater is faster then water becaus e there more salt so air goes through it faster.
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Gases
yes
It travels fastest through solids, slowest through gases, and liquids are in the middle.
a gas or the air (a mixture of gases)
sound will travel through air (gas), the slowest. Because the molecule sin the air are farther apart. Actually rubber it will travel through rubber the slowest. Air is second slowest then water and then granite was all I learned . Also Saltwater is faster then water becaus e there more salt so air goes through it faster.
wood
Area of dry airIf we consider just the three "basic" states of matter, i.e., solids, liquids and gases, it is in gases that sound travels slowest.
The speed of sound depends on the medium through which it is traveling. Sound travels fastest through solids, then liquids, and slowest through gases. As the molecules in a solid medium are closely packed together, sound waves can travel more quickly through it. Sound waves travel over 17 times faster through steel than through air. The molecules in a liquid medium are also more close together than a gaseous medium, so sound travels 4 times faster in fresh water as compared to air. In a gas, sound can travel only when molecules collide with each other, and as the molecules are quite far apart, the speed is slowest in gases.
Sound travels slowest through air because the particles in the air are spread apart.
Gases have the least amount of molecules and they are spread farther apart so it takes a longer time for the sound energy to travel from molecule to molecule.
Air.
no