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Sound travels faster through metal than through air. Sound waves can propagate faster through denser materials because the atoms are much closer to each other. The clarity of the sound is also maintained better in dense materials because the likelihood of an atom not transmitting it's "vibration" to another atom is much smaller with so many atoms packed together.

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