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Q: What does a loud ticking sound in your diesel engine mean?
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What sound is ten decibels?

Leaves rustling at a distance. A ticking watch is twice as loud!


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A sound at 15 decibels is not very load. It is equivalent to the sound that watch makes when ticking.


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