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longitudinal wave comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has amplitude	has domain	has period	has propagation direction	has synonym	has definition
sound wave in gas	mass motion		physics			periodic motion	A longitudinal wave propagated through a gas as a pattern of alternating high and low pressure.

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