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LEADED GASOLINE

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• LEADED GASOLINE (noun)
The noun LEADED GASOLINE has 1 sense:

1. gasoline treated with a lead compound to reduce motor knocks

Familiarity information: LEADED GASOLINE used as a noun is very rare.

• LEADED GASOLINE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Gasoline treated with a lead compound to reduce motor knocks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Context example:

combustion of leaded gasoline released lead into the air where it could cause lead poisoning

Hypernyms ("leaded gasoline" is a kind of...):

gas; gasolene; gasoline; petrol (a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines)

Antonym:

unleaded gasoline (gasoline that has not been treated with a lead compound)

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