To: silent majority rising
As I heard it, 100-octand avgas wasn’t the result of catalytic cracking, it was the result of tetraethyl lead.
4 posted on
03/12/2021 3:51:07 PM PST by
DuncanWaring
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To: DuncanWaring
I thought it was Shell that first made 100 octane and Jimmy Doolittle was involved.
To: DuncanWaring
Yes. Gas stations used to offer "regular" or "ethyl" (short for tetraethyllead). The gas jockey would ask "regular or ethyl?" before he filled up your car at 19 cents per gallon.
Pure TEL is poisonous as hell, very nasty stuff.
To: DuncanWaring
Tetraethyl lead was invented by GM in the early 20s.
17 posted on
03/12/2021 4:43:32 PM PST by
norwaypinesavage
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