Word: nitrous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regular unleaded is also scarce. In the past two years, consumption of the unleaded grades has grown dramatically, as federal antipollution laws have forced U.S. automakers to shift to production of cars unsuited for leaded fuels. Lead hampers the functioning of so-called catalytic converters, which remove pollutants like nitrous oxide from auto exhausts. Surging demand for unleaded fuel has driven Shell Oil Co., the nation's largest gasoline retailer, and Amoco Oil Co., the leading producer of unleaded gas, to begin limiting deliveries to dealers. Mobil and other companies are also hard pressed to meet demand...
...editorial, Handlin said the decision of a state environmental agency blocking the construction of diesel electric generators in the power plant because of potentially dangerous emissions of nitrous dioxide "indicates a real unfairness in the way government regulates such projects...
...DEQE's January 31 decision rejected the Medical Area project's planned diesel electric generators because they would discharge dangerous levels of nitrous dioxide in the heavily populated Mission Hill area of Boston...
...recent study of ocean currents and nitrous oxide levels in different areas of the Pacific Ocean indicates that aqueous nitrous oxide may be coming primarily from one side of the earth, McElroy said...
McElroy discussed his recent research on the Potomac River, where as much as 10 per cent of the nitrous oxide released by the Blue Plains sewage treatment plant escapes into...