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by arbitrage 2402 days ago
> I haven't read 100% of the article

The article states that airborne particles and gasses can travel quite a distance to affect people that aren't in the localized application area of the CIPP sites.

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ah, I see.

> Emissions from a nearby CIPP job got indoors through cracks in the building’s foundation and irritated workers to the point that they evacuated

This is fascinating. I've always thought of dirt and concrete as being basically impenetrable to things like this, but apparently they're not!

Concrete is porus to water. If water can seep thru, when it’s not cracked, air can as well.
Water molecules are smaller than air though, so a surface can be airtight and not be watertight.