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Air bottle pressure testing How?

All hydraulic test has to done by water because in pressure testing we are checking for weakness in air bottle .Hydraullic pressure test to be done above 50% at design pressure . If the air bottle was actually having a hole , then it will take atleast half hour  for the pressure to be released , till that time the weak air bottle is pressurised .But in hydruallic pressure test even one drop escapes , the pressure is released because the water is incompressible
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