tetraethyl
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tetraethyl
Example Sentences
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She noted that the fuel and vehicle industries' rush to adopt tetraethyl lead, despite its grave public health implications, led to tremendous damage.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2021
Similarly, several decades later, the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline raised environmental concerns, but was tolerated as a necessary lubricant for the adoption of the internal combustion engine.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2018
As Americans took to the road during the postwar boom in car travel, the amount of tetraethyl lead in the nation’s air and soil rapidly increased.
From Time ● Jun. 28, 2016
GM marketers would later call lead “a gift from God,” and tetraethyl lead would be used for the next 50 years in American gasoline—despite early concerns.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2015
What he needed was a way to compare lead levels in the atmosphere now with the levels that existed before 1923, when tetraethyl lead was introduced.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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