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Originally Posted by Flieger View Post
Everything is compressible. Well, maybe not the stuff in the center of a black hole.

It's just a question of bulk modulus. If water weren't compressible you couldn't have sound waves pass through it.
This.
With enough pressure diamonds are compressible.
Matter is mostly empty space.

In normal day to day life, water is not really compressible. In theory or with very special equipment it is.
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