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How does sound travel through water - transverse or logitudnal waves?

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Sound travel as a longitudinal wave in water. Sound wave propagates through compressible media such as air, water and solids as longitudinal waves and also as a transverse waves in solids.
Here, the displacement of the medium that constitute disturbance is in the direction of travel of the disturbance.

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