raganwald 🍓 on Nostr: Yes, sometimes it takes a criminally long period of time to ban certain products, ...

Yes, sometimes it takes a criminally long period of time to ban certain products, like asbestos, cigarettes ( not yet!), and weird things like this:

“Tetraethyllead, abbreviated TEL, is an organolead compound with the formula Pb₄. It is a fuel additive, first being mixed with gasoline beginning in the 1920s as a patented octane rating booster that allowed engine compression to be raised substantially. This in turn increased vehicle performance and fuel economy.”