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Why are solids incompressible?

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Compressibility is the ability of the substance to change its shape by applying external pressure. Solids form closed packed structure with negligible intermolecular space and possesses very strong intermolecular forces of attraction. Thus, they do not change their shape in the presence of external pressure.
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