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Ball announced the discovery on Friday of formic acid and ethyl alcohol-organic compounds Ball called "much more complex than any other molecules discovered in space...
...brief period after DDT was first put to use In 1945, the pasture mosquito seemed under control in California. But within seven years, the insects had become so resistant to the new chemical that researchers had to develop another organic compound, ethyl parathion. That failed in 1961-as did methyl parathion in 1963, and fenthion in 1968. Today, California has no chemical able to kill the pasture mosquito in safe dosages...
True or false: lead-free gasoline is the best thing to come down the freeway since the V-8 engine. True, according to the oil companies that recently switched to unleaded or low-lead fuels and are promoting them as an antipollution measure. False, from the viewpoint of the Ethyl Corp., the nation's largest producer of lead additives for gasoline...
Shell, Esso, Chevron and Amoco make ambitious claims. Esso's Big Plus is touted as "the lowest-lead, highest-octane gasoline for the money," and Chevron boasts that its F-310 fuel will "reduce fuel consumption, improve performance and cut maintenance." Ethyl Corp., which pioneered the use of lead compound additives for autos in 1923 and saw its stock jump in the 1950s when Detroit moved to high-compression engines, contends that by taking the lead out of gasoline, oil companies will actually increase other forms of noxious automobile emissions...
Octane Loss. Specifically, charges Lawrence Blanchard Jr., Ethyl's executive vice president, nonlead gasolines will have to use larger amounts of the more combustible gasoline components called aromatics, which compensate for the loss of octane that results from the removal of lead. Without them, high-performance engines as presently designed would lose power and produce knocking. But, argues Blanchard, the burning of the aromatics emits toxic benzene and other chemicals, which react with sunlight to produce heavy smog...