Can a sound wave travel through plastic paper/bag? How do light, sound, and radio waves travel in space if space is a void and there is not any matter for the aforementioned to travel through? How far can sound waves travel? Simply: Sound is propagated in a gas (air) and space has no air.
With resistors many think carbon comps are required for true mojo, especially as plate loads. Others discount the mojo factor completely and go with metal film as the most stable and quiet in operation. While others split the difference and use carbon film for some of the mojo with better stability and quieter operation.
1 Different allotropes have different densities of about 2 g/cm. Stable allotropes are excellent electrical insulators.  Sulfur burns with a blue flame, forming sulfur dioxide with suffocating odor. It is insoluble in water but soluble in carbon disulfide.