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Who played the lead role in Seinfeld?
Jerry Seinfeld
Who played lead role in chopper?
Eric Bana
Who had the lead role in Night of the Hunter?
Robert Mitchum
Who is playing the female lead role in serial of pavitra rishta?
Archana (Ankita Lokhande) is playing the female lead role in the serial of pavitra rishta, not poorvi (asha negi).
Who took the lead role in the film the fly?
Jeff goldblum
Is there iodine in petrol?
It is extremely unlikely to find Iodine in petrol/gasoline. It is not deliberately added. Bromine used to be added in the form of Lead Tetrabromide.
What is the function of lead in petrol?
Lead is no longer added to petrol because it added to both air pollution and general health risks. It used to be added for help in maintaining the general "health" of an engine's valves as well as reducing engine knocking.
How much lead is used in 1L of petrol?
lead is not used in gasoline in the US anymore, so I think your question needs to be more location specific as I am pretty sure its not added to petrol in Canada and the EU.
Which compound is added to petrol to prevent engines from knocking?
lead tetra-ethyl Pb(C2H5)4
Why are lead compounds added to petrol and how it is harmful?
lead compounds are harmful if added to petrol as it cause cancer, poison the catalytic converter (use to convert harmful gases into less harmful gases/harmless, emmision of greenhouse gases and increase the amount of oxides of nitrogen which results in acid rain.
Lead content in petrol?
can content in petrol if not unleaded
What is an unleded petrol?
Unleaded petrol is petrol that has not been treated with a lead compound.
Lead was put in petrol to prevent the problem?
TEtro-Ethel Lead (spelling errors my fault) was added to fuel to increase octane.This reduced pre ignition also known as ping.
What is the main chemical compound present in petrol?
The compound "lead" is in petrol (gas).
What are the sources of lead in the atmosphere?
Until relatively recently, lead was added to petrol to raise its octane rating. After decades of cars emitting this into our atmosphere, scientists began to find high levels of lead in the air of our cities and along major traffic arteries. Even after lead is no longer added to fuel, the lead remains in our urban environment and re-enters the atmosphere when disturbed.
Advantages using unleaded petrol for cars?
in petrol we have 2 types.they are 1.leaded petrol 2.unleaded petrol in leaded petrol we have lead compounds so we call it as leaded petrol. in unleaded petrol we do not have lead compounds. the use or advantage of unleaded petrol is it does not emit harmful gases in to the environment. but leaded petrol emits harmful gases. cracking process takes place in unleaded petrol. cracking means it is a process of converting harmful gases into harmless gases. but this cracking process cannot be done in leaded petrol bcoz lead compounds decomposes the catylsts used in cracking process
What is Tetraethyl lead used for?
petrol additive
