Photo Credit handmade soap image by Alison Bowden from Fotolia.com. Castile soap is a natural liquid or hard soap made from vegetable oils. The first Castile soaps were made with the local olive oil and contained no tallow, or rendered animal fats, like most contemporary soaps.
Properties of Compressional or P waves. The first kind of body wave is the P wave. This is the fastest kind of seismic wave their name derives for the fact that P is an abbreviation for primary, first wave to arrive. The P wave generally travel at speeds between 1 and 14 km/sec. The P wave can move through solid rock and fluids, like water or the liquid layers of the earth.
A: Sound waves travel fastest through a solid material. The second fastest medium is a liquid, and the slowest medium is a gas, because sound waves travel by vibrating molecules in a medium. In solids, these molecules are spaced closer together, causing sound to travel faster through it. Continue Reading