Isn't the pressure only part of the danger? In my non-scientific experience, it seems that the speed of failure is the important part. i.e a truck tire with a nail in it does no harm, but a 15-ply semi tire at 100psi having a catastrophic failure is a much different animal. All about the speed of release.
My own personal story:
some friends and I filled a 5 gallon bottle with a bit of isopropyl alcohol, shook it up, and lit the opening to make a "rocket flame". We had seen this done in class, and it went fine. BUT...we wanted to do it again. we had no more alcohol, so we used Acetone instead, but it wouldn't light. There wasn't enough air in the bottle, since we had just burned out the oxygen. Because we were 16, and lacking much foresight, we decided "why just put air in the bottle, when we could use pure oxygen from a welding tank?". We did that. The ensuing incandescent explosion lit up briefly like a lightbulb and then ruptured the bottle into about 100 pieces. the major one landed 2-3 seconds later, about 200 feet away.
Even though that was moronic, I pride myself for having worn welding gloves, a face shield, ear plugs, and used a 12 foot handle with a match on the end. The detonation left me feeling shaky and jittery for about 6 hours.
My own personal story: some friends and I filled a 5 gallon bottle with a bit of isopropyl alcohol, shook it up, and lit the opening to make a "rocket flame". We had seen this done in class, and it went fine. BUT...we wanted to do it again. we had no more alcohol, so we used Acetone instead, but it wouldn't light. There wasn't enough air in the bottle, since we had just burned out the oxygen. Because we were 16, and lacking much foresight, we decided "why just put air in the bottle, when we could use pure oxygen from a welding tank?". We did that. The ensuing incandescent explosion lit up briefly like a lightbulb and then ruptured the bottle into about 100 pieces. the major one landed 2-3 seconds later, about 200 feet away.
Even though that was moronic, I pride myself for having worn welding gloves, a face shield, ear plugs, and used a 12 foot handle with a match on the end. The detonation left me feeling shaky and jittery for about 6 hours.
My point is, speed of failure is important.