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Sound travels slowest in gases.


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False
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Solution

The correct option is A True
  1. Sound needs a medium to propagate.
  2. Sound travels fastest in solids as the particles are very closely packed, then in liquids as particles are less close, and the slowest in gas as the particles are loosely packed.
  3. Thus, sound travels the slowest in gases.

Hence, the given statement is true.


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