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What is the distance between adjacent wave compressions

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This like asking the distance between adjacent peaks or troughs in a transverse wave, which we know is one wavelength.

Similarly, for a longitudinal wave the the distance between adjacent wave compressions is equal to :

One wavelength distance of the wave.
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the answer is one wave length 
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