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Can we hear (a) infrasonic waves (b) ulfrasonic waves ?

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No. We can hear sounds only in the range of 20 Hz-20kHz. Ultrasonic sound waves have frequencies more than 20 kHz while infrasonic waves have frequency less than 20 Hz.

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