lead tetraethyl

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   a clear oily poisonous liquid added to gasoline to prevent knocking

   Synonymstetraethyl lead

   Broaderantiknock

Questions about lead tetraethyl

What does lead tetraethyl mean?

lead tetraethyl means "a clear oily poisonous liquid added to gasoline to prevent knocking".

What is another word for lead tetraethyl?

Close synonyms include tetraethyl lead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lead tetraethyl a common word?

lead tetraethyl is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.