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- noun chemistry Four
ethyl groups in amolecule
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Once upon a time, to keep engines running smoothly, a chemical called tetraethyl-lead was added to petrol essentially as an "anti-bumping" chemical.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Once upon a time, to keep engines running smoothly, a chemical called tetraethyl-lead was added to petrol essentially as an "anti-bumping" chemical.
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Once upon a time, to keep engines running smoothly, a chemical called tetraethyl-lead was added to petrol essentially as an "anti-bumping" chemical.
Moonbat reaction 2005
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Once upon a time, to keep engines running smoothly, a chemical called tetraethyl-lead was added to petrol essentially as an "anti-bumping" chemical.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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Turner, a British citizen, was the business director of the Innospec division producing the fuel additive known as tetraethyl lead (TEL).
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Bullets and lead sinkers are chemically the wrong stuff (elemental lead, not lead carbonate, not tetraethyl lead), and they're not aerosolized.
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Bullets and lead sinkers are chemically the wrong stuff (elemental lead, not lead carbonate, not tetraethyl lead), and they're not aerosolized.
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The only lead known to enter the ecosystem comes from tetraethyl lead (now banned these 30+ years) and lead carbonate in paint.
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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by approving bribes to win orders for the fuel additive tetraethyl lead in mid-2004 and 2005.
Innospec Ex-CEO Dionne Searcey 2011
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The only lead known to enter the ecosystem comes from tetraethyl lead (now banned these 30+ years) and lead carbonate in paint.
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