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The vibrations of a sounding body are transmitted to all contiguous material, directly or indirectly. Air is the ordinary conductor of sound and the most proper medium for transmitting the sensation of sound to the exterior organs of hearing to man and to all types of land animals. But all liquid and solid materials also propagate the sound with a great deal of intensity; the same with all of the modifications to the sound propagated by these materials.
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Chladni, E.F.F. (2015). Section 2: On the Propagation of Sound Through Liquids and Solids. In: Treatise on Acoustics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20361-4_15
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