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gasoline treated with a lead compound to reduce motor knocks
combustion of leaded gasoline released lead into the air where it could cause lead poisoning
How To Use leaded petrol In A Sentence
- The budget provided the financial incentive, but much confusion still abounds over the use of unleaded petrol.
- These come in bottles or syringe-like applicators and are poured into the vehicle's tank, along with unleaded petrol.
- It was technology that brought us the car, but it is making amends with high fuel-efficiency cars, the electric Smart car, and, of course, unleaded petrol.
- In some countries, such as Austria, only leaded petrol is available.
- The only concession to modernity on the 50-year-old lorries is that the engines have been converted to run on unleaded petrol.
- About 18 months ago diesel fuel was 1p cheaper per litre than unleaded petrol in my area. Times, Sunday Times
- But Mr King warned of a worrying gulf between the price of unleaded petrol and diesel. The Sun
- Personally, I thought it was a result of the abolition of leaded petrol but it is something of a pet theory of mine.
- She says her son Mark must get compensation for the cost of cleaning and re-fitting his engine after he unknowingly filled the car with diesel instead of unleaded petrol.
- The Petrol Retailers Association criticised the store for ‘cynically’ offering 20p off unleaded petrol to shoppers who spent more than £150 in its stores.