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What causes the sounds that are heard in a seashell?

When you hold a seashell to your ear, you hear soft sounds that are amplified as they bounce around inside the seashell's cavity. The seashell resonance effect illustrates the extreme sensitivity of the human ear to sound.

Source-. Berg, Richard E. The Physics of Sound, p. 145.

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