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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Accidental loads?
Hi all! I'm working on a paper about accidents (fires, explosions and similar) in the chemical process industries, and the associated risk to personnel. When discussing the effect that such accidents have on personnel the collective term "accident load" is sometimes used. This makes sense to me. However, when searching the net I find that the term "accidental load" is more often used. Does this make sense? Wouldn't an "accidental load" be a load that happened by chance/by accident, while an "accident load" would be the load on some object generated by an accident?
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I agree with you that accident load is much better. In matters of jargon, it's always a good idea to consider what respected authors in the field normally use. You might also consider briefly defining early in your paper the term you choose to use.
- I agree with you that accident load is much better.
- In matters of jargon, it's always a good idea to consider what respected authors in the field normally use.
- You might also consider briefly defining early in your paper the term you choose to use.
- Clive
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I agree with you that accident load is much better.
In matters of jargon, it's always a good idea to consider what respected authors in the field normally use. You might also consider briefly defining early in your paper the term you choose to use.
Clive
In matters of jargon, it's always a good idea to consider what respected authors in the field normally use. You might also consider briefly defining early in your paper the term you choose to use.
Clive
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