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Solids CAN be compressed but, compared to gasses, it's very difficult to tell. Solids, like liquids, are more difficult to compress than gasses because their atoms are much closer together and impart proportionally more force on each other

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Solids have tightly packed particles that are already occupying the least possible volume. Any attempt to compress a solid will cause the particles to come closer together, resulting in repulsive forces between them, which resist further compression. This is why solids are generally considered to be incompressible.

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