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Re:A brief history of gasoline: Searching for the magic bullet by divbzero on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:52AM (#30382866)
How does high octane fuel for aviation figure into the history of gasoline? If I remember correctly 100 octane gasoline was used for aviation during World War II before the rise of jet engines shifted aviation to using jet fuel.
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Re:A brief history of gasoline: Searching for the magic bullet by fuzzfactor on Saturday February 19, 2022 @03:49AM (#30395494)
This is the green-dyed 130 octane which is basically blended from stocks somewhat similar but cleaner than high-octane unleaded "conventional" automotive gasoline.

The base stocks without lead could be about like the blue 100LL and lead is added to bring it up to 130 on a "supercharge" rating not exactly like the Research and Motor methods are conducted on the test engines.

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