Kevin Drum's excellent piece on the effects of tetraethyl lead is now being picked up around the world. Here's George Monbiot for example: At first it seemed preposterous. The hypothesis was so exotic ...
On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General Motors lab poured a new fuel blend into one of their test engines. Immediately, the engine began running more quietly ...
From the 1920s until the 1970s, most gasoline cars in the USA were using fuel that had lead mixed into it. The reason for this was to reduce the engine knocking effect from abnormal combustion in ...
The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey has a plant at Bayway, N. J. There last week a man suddenly became raving mad. He was taken to a hospital in Manhattan where he soon died. Others became affected.
DR. CREMER reports that the rate of oxygen consumption, in a glucose–Ringer medium, of the isolated brain tissue of rats poisoned with lead tetraethyl is very greatly diminished (nearly 70 per cent) ...
Tetraethyl lead (TEL) was a crucial additive that enabled the development and high-performance of piston aircraft engines, playing a vital role from Charles Lindbergh's pioneering flights to the ...
(MENAFN- IMARC Group) IMARC Group's report titled“ Tetraethyl Lead Manufacturing Plant Project Report 2024: Industry Trends, Plant Setup, Machinery, Raw Materials, Investment Opportunities, Cost and ...
A British company is selling lead fuel additives – banned because of their “catastrophic” effects on human health – to the last remaining country in the world where they are still legal. The ...
Author’s note: Most people don’t realize that we knew in the 1920s that leaded gasoline was extremely dangerous. And in light of a Mother Jones story this week that looks at the connection between ...
Someone could make a Broadway musical about him—arguably the 20th century’s single greatest human fomenter of environmental degradation, though by most accounts a pretty nice guy. It could be a comedy ...
From the 1920s until the 1970s, most gasoline cars in the USA were using fuel that had lead mixed into it. The reason for this was to reduce the engine knocking effect from abnormal combustion in ...
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