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Either a Longitudinal or Compressional Wave.

Looks like: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i.e. Slinky

The gaps are rarefactions.

The one's closer together are compressions.

Rarefaction is the reduction of a medium's density, or the opposite of compression.

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