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Bookmark or Share- Lead in gasoline tied to millions of excess mental health disorders: studyOf that group, the greatest lead-linked mental illness burden was for Generation Xers born between 1966 and 1970, coinciding with peak use of leaded gasoline in the mid-1960s and mid-1970s.
- How the world eliminated lead from gasoline - Our World in DataThe world started adding lead to gasoline in the 1920s. The reason was that it is an ‘antiknock agent’ which improved the efficiency of vehicles and the performance of the engine. It turned clunky engines into smoothly running engines.
- How Leaded Gas Came to Be and Why We Don’t Miss It - Car and DriverLeaded gasoline was the primary fuel type produced and sold in America until 1975. Although cited as a reason for limiting the use of leaded gas, health issues associated with TEL...
- The rise and fall of leaded gasoline - The ConversationLeaded gasoline went on to dominate fuel markets worldwide. Researchers have estimated that decades of burning leaded gasoline caused millions of premature deaths, enormous declines in IQ...
- Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was InventedFor most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. It wasn’t: lead is a poison, and burning it had dire consequences. But how did it get into gasoline in the first place?
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