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Sound travels via particle-to-particle vibrations around a mean position; this means that the more particles there are, the better the sound travels. Therefore, sound travels faster through iron than through water or air. Sound travels through iron roughly 15 times faster than through air. The more dense the solid, the better the sound transfer.

Sound will travel the fastest in solids since the molecules are more tightly packed together, allowing sound to travel through the medium faster. Then comes liquids, then gases.

Sound travels fastest on earth because there is no sound in space! since there's no medium in space for sound to travel through.

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Solids. The speed of sound is 15 times faster in iron than in air.

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Vacuum - 0 m/s

Air - 340 m/s

Water - 1,484 m/s

Iron - 5,120 m/s

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Sound waves travel the fastest through a solid.

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