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Old 09-26-2009, 02:32 PM   #13 (permalink)
gone-ot
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Originally Posted by dcb View Post
2 grams per gallon = your typical piper cub spitting out a POUND of lead for every 56 hours of operation. I'll stick with insane
...I think you're assuming all that "ml"-volume is Pb, which ain't so! At the molecular-level, the percentage of Pb is quite a bit less than 100%, but (admittedly) not insignificant.

TEL = C(8)_H(20)_Pb or ((CH3.CH2)4)Pb

...the Pb is about 64% of the total molecular weight.

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