Thomas Midgley,US chemist

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Thomas Midgley,US chemist
Thomas Midgley (1889-1944),US chemist and inventor. Working for Delco in World War I,Midgley led a team working on 'knocking' in petrol engines. He found that tetra-ethyl lead (when used with 1,2-dibromo-ethane to reduce lead oxide deposits in the engine) is highly effective at reducing knocking when added to petrol. The mixture is still used as an anti-knock additive today. Midgley devised the octane number method of rating petrol quality. In 1930 he introduced Freon 12 as a non-toxic non-flammable agent for domestic refrigerators. Both Freon and his lead-based anti-knock compound have since been shown to harm the environment
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