WordNet
lead tetraethyl
n. a clear oily poisonous liquid added to gasoline to prevent knocking [syn: tetraethyl lead]
Usage examples of "lead tetraethyl".
In 1921, while working for the General Motors Research Corporation in Dayton, Ohio, he investigated a compound called tetraethyl lead (also known, confusingly, as lead tetraethyl), and discovered that it significantly reduced the juddering condition known as engine knock.