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General Properties and Character Types of Sound Waves

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In the previous sections, it was shown that sound is alternating in the space and time of compression and rarefaction of the environment in which it is distributed.

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Kistovich, A., Pokazeev, K., Chaplina, T. (2020). General Properties and Character Types of Sound Waves. In: Ocean Acoustics. Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35884-6_3

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