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Bulk modulus


The bulk modulus ( or ) of a substance is a measure of how incompressible/resistant to compressibility that substance is. It is defined as the ratio of the infinitesimal pressure increase to the resulting relative decrease of the volume.

The bulk modulus can be formally defined by the equation

where is pressure, is volume, and denotes the derivative of pressure with respect to volume. Equivalently


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