sound travels through solids and liquids then how does it bounce off and not travel through the medium

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Sound travels through the compression and rare fraction of the molecules of the medium.
When body is rigid that means, compression and rare fraction of the molecules do not occur than sound waves gets bounced off from the medium .

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