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How do humans detect sound?

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When sound waves travel through the compressions and rarefactions of the air molecules, the pinna in our outer ear picks up all of these and sends them through our ear tube. The ear drum, a stretched membrane which separates our outer ear and middle ear, starts vibrating due to the air molecules. These vibrations then strike the delicate, interlocked bones- Anvil, Stirrup, Hammer; starts vibrating. These are the smallest bones in the body. This then sends the vibrations through the organ of hearing or the cochlea. The cochlea then sends this to the brain through the auditory nerve. Above the cochlea is the organ of balance, which has a fluid in it. It is due to this fluid that we become dizzy when rotate at a high speed.

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