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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas
Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 21:53:02 -0700
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In article <v1e9i1$3gl7l$1@dont-email.me>,
 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

> xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas
>     https://xkcd.com/2929/
> 
> We would have lost WWII without leaded gasoline.  

The Germans had leaded gasoline and they lost.

> The bombers and fighters both required 100+ octane gasoline which was only
> achievable using massive quantities of tetra-ethyl lead in those days.

What about the processes of cracking longer hydrocarbon chains down to 8 
carbon chains?

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com