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What is more elastic : water or air, why?

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water is more elastic than air, because bulk modulus of elesticity is reciprocal of compressiblity and air is more compressible than water.
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PRADEEP-PROPERTIES OF BULK MATTER-Very short answer questions
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  5. What is value of modulus of rigidity for a liquid?

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  6. How does Young's modulus change with rise in temperature?

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  10. Which state of matter has volume elasticity?

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  12. What does the slops of stress versus strain graph indicate?

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  13. What are the factors on which the modulus of elesticity depends?

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  16. On what factors does the elastic limit of a material depend?

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  18. What is the possible value of Poisson's ratio of a substance?

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