Word: tetraethyl
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...control the high pressure explosion waves which pound against cylinder walls and produce the metallic sound, oilmen added to gasoline substances which raise the detonating point. Examples: aniline, tetraethyl lead...
...Tetraethyl lead (antiknock) gasoline had been declared safe for general use and been put on sale throughout the country...
These investigators reported that all was well. Care would have to be taken in handling the potent tetraethyl lead, but garage workers and people in the street were safe enough. Experiments at Pittsburgh on animals had shown that the deposition of lead from an ethyl gas exhaust was very small...
Some months ago, when five handlers of tetraethyl lead employed by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, went raving mad and died in straitjackets (TIME, Nov. 10, 1924, SCIENCE), the health menace in manufacturing "ethyl gasoline" was recognized. The plant was shut down; the sale of the new gasoline was discontinued. Health authorities investigated also the dangers of handling the fuel and the dangers of encountering exhaust fumes from motors...
...blending of the fuel- tetraethyl lead with gasoline-should be confined to as few central plants as possible...