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rarefaction

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rarefaction

In medicine, the reduction in bone density due to the depletion of calcium stores, due to an infection of the bone, for example.

rarefaction

Region of a sound wave where the particles of the medium through which it is travelling are spread out, that is at a low density. Sound waves consist of alternate regions of compressions and rarefactions travelling away from the source.



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For some days past, Captain Bonneville had been made sensible of the great elevation of country into which he was gradually ascending by the effect of the dryness and rarefaction of the atmosphere upon his wagons.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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