How does sound travel through a medium?

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Roy Ø.
Jun 5, 2018

This totally depends on the medium in question.

Explanation:

This has no definite answer, since it depends on the medium. Check up Wikipedia on "Speed of sound". Some facts taken from there:

Some numbers taken from Wikipedia:
In air: sound travels at 343 m/s
In water: it travels at 1,484 m/s (4.3 times as fast as in air)
In rion; 5,120 m/s (about 15 times as fast as in air).
In an exceptionally stiff material such as diamond, sound travels at 12,000 metres per second

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