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    What happens to air in a hydrostatic test

    Your answer to 1 is very intriguing. So if i had 10 gallons of water and a gallon of air in the system, and then injected water up to 150 PSI and held it there, eventually all of the air would be absorbed into the water? so there would be no air pockets at all? And I will counter you with...
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    What happens to air in a hydrostatic test

    I am a contractor. I install water lines. Once installed we have to pressure test them. We pump the lines up to 150 PSI of water. If the PSI drops one of 2 things is wrong, either i have a leak in the line, or there is a small amount of air in the line. Generally if it is air, it stabilizes...
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