Some speed of sound stats from the engineering toolbox:
| Solid | Speed of Sound (m/s) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Longitudinal | Shear | Extensional | |
| Aluminum, rolled | 6420 | 3040 | 5000 |
| Antimony | 3400 | ||
| Beryllium | 12890 | 8880 | 12870 |
| Bismut | 2180 | 1790 | |
| Brass (70% Cu, 30% Zn) | 4700 | 2110 | 3480 |
| Brick | 4200 | 3600 | |
| Cadmium | 2780 | 2400 | |
| Concrete | 3700 | 3200 | |
| Constantan | 5177 | 2625 | 4270 |
| Copper, annealed | 4760 | 2325 | 3810 |
| Copper, rolled | 5010 | 2270 | 3750 |
| Cork | 518 | 366 | |
| Diamond | 12000 | ||
| Duralumin | 6320 | 3130 | 5150 |
| Glass, heavy silicate flint | 3980 | 2380 | 3720 |
| Glass, light borate crown | 5100 | 2840 | 4540 |
| Glass, pyrex | 5640 | 3280 | 5140 |
| Gold, hard drawn | 3240 | 1200 | 2030 |
| Granite | 5950 | ||
| Iridium | 4790 | ||
| Iron, cast | 4994 | 2809 | 4480 |
| Iron, electrolytic | 5950 | 3240 | 5120 |
| Ivory | 3010 | ||
| Lead, annealed | 2160 | 700 | 1190 |
| Lead, rolled | 1960 | 690 | 1210 |
| Lucite | 2680 | 1100 | 1840 |
| Magnesium, annealed | 5770 | 3050 | 4940 |
| Manganese | 4660 | 3830 | |
| Marble | 3810 | ||
| Molybdenum | 6250 | 3350 | 5400 |
| Monel | 5350 | 2720 | 4400 |
| Nickel | 6040 | 3000 | 4900 |
| Nylon 6/6 | 2620 | 1070 | 1800 |
| Platinum | 3260 | 1730 | 2800 |
| Polyethylene | 1950 | 540 | 920 |
| Polystyrene | 2350 | 1120 | 1840 |
| Rubber, butyl | 1830 | ||
| Rubber, gum | 1550 | ||
| Rubber, neoprene | 1600 | ||
| Silica, fused | 5968 | 3764 | 5760 |
| Silver | 3650 | 1610 | 2680 |
| Slate | 4510 | ||
| Steel (1% C) | 5940 | 3220 | 5180 |
| Steel, stainless | 5790 | 3100 | 5000 |
| Tantalium | 3350 | ||
| Tin, rolled | 3320 | 1670 | 2730 |
| Titanium | 6070 | 3125 | 5090 |
| Tungsten, annealed | 5220 | 2890 | 4620 |
| Tungsten, drawn | 5410 | 2640 | 4320 |
| Tungsten carbide | 6655 | 3980 | 6220 |
| Wood (hard) | 3960 | ||
| Wood, longitudinal parallel with grain | 3300 - 5000 | ||
| Zinc, rolled | 4210 | 2440 | 3850 |