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Getting the Lead Out

Roy W. Clark

Department of Chemistry, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37130-4531

J. Chem. Educ., 2006, 83 (4), p 548

DOI: 10.1021/ed083p548.1

Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2006

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Didn’t we teach this generation of students that chemists (good chemists) took the lead out and made it unnecessary? So why do gasoline companies continue to remind us of chemists’ past mistakes? Do they think this sells more gasoline?

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Received: August 03, 2009

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