Disclose a secret or reveal something prematurely, as in You can count on little Carol to spill the beans about the surprise. In this colloquial expression, first recorded in 1919, spill means âdivulge,â a usage dating from the 1500s.
Unformatted text preview: A) S waves travel through solids and P waves travel through liquids. B) P and S waves travel through liquids, but S waves do not travel through solids. C) P waves travel through solids; S waves do not. D) P and S waves travel through liquids, but P waves do not travel through solids.
Body waves. Body waves are of two types: compressional or primary (P) waves and shear or secondary (S) waves. P-and S-waves are called body waves because they can travel through the interior of a body such as the Earth's inner layers, from the focus of an earthquake to distant points on the surface.he seismic waves created as they move from the epicentre an earthquake vary. What is amazing is how fast they can travel: up to 2 miles per second in granite! Seismic waves can be classified into two basic types: body waves which travel through the Earth and surface waves, which travel along the Earth's surface.