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MY VOICE MATTERS. Democrat. 🏳️‍🌈Ally. Disabled by mental illnesses. She, her, hers. Same name at Spoutible :)
Nov 7, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
TIL, from a book I'm reading about poisons, why gasoline must be specifically labeled as "unleaded".

Particularly impressed by the description of the man who "died screaming in a straightjacket" after working in a factory that made tetraethyl lead (TEL), that used to be in gas A chemical engineer discovered ~1920 that adding TEL to gas smoothed out the "knocking" in engines. Problem was, TEL was known to be readily absorbed & highly poisonous. That was conveniently overlooked, and oil & gas companies started making it, slowly poisoning their workers.