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leaded gasoline

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leaded gasoline

Gasoline containing the lead compound tetraethyl lead, (C2H5)4Pb, an anti-knock agent. It improves the combustion of gasoline and the performance of an automobile engine. The lead from the exhaust fumes enters the atmosphere, mostly as simple lead compounds, which are poisonous to the developing nervous systems of children.



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Although progress has recently been made by phasing out leaded gasoline in India, exposure from many other sources (including the entrainment of lead oxide from combusted leaded gasoline into dust, water, and the food system) is likely to continue for many years to come.
Childhood correlates of blood lead levels in Mumbai and Delhi by Hu, Howard / Environmental Health Perspectives
The kids had toxic levels of lead in their blood, believed to be caused by the city's leaded gasoline.
Big cities, big problems by Diamond, Ariel K. / E
It is, however, also easy to find examples in which waiting to take precautionary measures against a risk turned out to be serious errors as well--such as the systematic poisoning of generations of urban children in the United States with leaded gasoline.
A principled objection by Pope, Carl / The National Interest
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