Word: antiknock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fuel can be used in any car with a low-compression engine not requiring the antiknock properties of leaded gas. But it will be indispensable in all but a few 1975-model cars. The great majority of those cars will be fitted with catalytic converters that change noxious exhaust fumes to harmless gases. The lead in ordinary gasoline fouls the converters. Indeed, as little as two tanks of leaded gas will "poison" a converter; to replace it could cost the motorist up to $150. So automakers will equip their 1975 models with smaller-than-usual filler pipes leading into...
...Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald bought Ethyl Corp., the world's largest producer of lead antiknock compounds for gasoline. Now the Government has set auto pollution standards that should force most lead additives out of gasoline by the mid-1970s...
Gottwald continues to spend money sparingly and has built a comfortable cash reserve of more than $140 million for Ethyl. But the company's net earnings declined 6% last year to $35 million on sales of $577 million. Since leaded antiknock compounds accounted for 36% of those sales and a hefty 60% of the profits, Ethyl may have more knocks ahead. But the company is not entirely pessimistic. It has high hopes for its mix of other products, including paper and polyethylene film for coating paper diapers...
...Blaustein, 78, founder of the American Oil Co. and former president of the American Jewish Committee; in Baltimore. With his father, Blaustein set up the first drive-in gas station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for more than...
Lead has been an increasingly significant additive to gasoline ever since Detroit began its horsepower race in the 1950s. The more and more powerful engines required gasolines with higher octane ratings, which is a measure of antiknock properties. The cheapest way of raising octane is to add lead in the refining process. If lead is removed, 100-octane premium gasoline will decline to an octane rating of about 94, the level of regular gasoline. Only one gasoline, Amoco, is marketed in unleaded premium octanes, and that is sold only in the eastern...