I remember this one time, some air reached out and tried to choke me.
Quiz - Visual Inspection Procedure - True/False 1
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Nothing is perfectly safe, you have to take into account all the people that might be in that situation. I was tempted to make this a political comment, but decided not to do so.
I would argue that it is. The question asks if the air which was released from the tank is harmless. The question can be interpreted in two ways. Is the quality of air good enough to be harmless? Or is the way you release the air would be harmless to a person releasing it...
Well, let's try it this way:
Does the air being chemically harmful matter to the answer of the question?
Obviously, if the gas itself is chemically harmful, you have two issues; the gas itself is harmful and the pressurized release is an embolism risk. Therefore, it isn't harmless.
If the gas itself isn't chemically harmful, you only have one issue... the embolism risk from the pressurized release. Therefore, it isn't harmless.
The makeup of the gas doesn't matter. In either situation, the answer is false.
If you choose to ignore the pressurized release of the question, you're stating that the question being asked is "is air that was released from a tank a while ago harmful now that it's mixed into the environment?"
That's a much bigger stretch, at least to me, than assuming that "air released" means "air in the process of being released".
Normally, I'd feel pretty good about being in the 15% of the people who got this right.
But when the 85% contains so many people with vastly more knowledge and experience than I have, I'm not so sure.
But when the 85% contains so many people with vastly more knowledge and experience than I have, I'm not so sure.
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