tetraethyl lead

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   a clear oily poisonous liquid added to gasoline to prevent knocking

   Synonymslead tetraethyl

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Questions about tetraethyl lead

What does tetraethyl lead mean?

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

What is another word for tetraethyl lead?

Close synonyms include lead tetraethyl. 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 tetraethyl lead a common word?

tetraethyl lead 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.