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Why sound cannot travel very far?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

I would say it's because sound travels relatively slow, compared to light, etc. it's only about 300m/s. It diffuses as it travels, so the vibrations spread out over a large area and the receiver gets a very vague signal that's close to nothing at all.

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