Which risk increases when a pressurized hydrogen tank undergoes rapid depressurization?

💡 Explanation

Brittle fracture risk rises markedly due to hydrogen embrittlement. Rapid depressurization reduces temperature, enabling absorption and diffusion of atomic hydrogen into the tank material, resulting in the formation of brittle hydrides, therefore embrittlement, rather than other listed outcomes occurring under different stress or contamination factors.

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