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Why are metals sonorous??

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Metals have high elasticity. Sound requires elasticity for high-speed propagation.

Due to elasticity, generated wavelengths of many modes of oscillations are in centimeters thus sounds can easily have audible frequencies.

Many metals are used in musical instruments to exploit their sonority property.

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