• fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Some have replaced lead.

    Aviation gasoline (avgas) for piston aircraft still contains lead.

    Certain racing fuels (off-road, track-only) may contain lead.

    Some specialty or legacy industrial uses…

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      15 hours ago

      Makes sense. Aviation is all about certification and reliability, racing is performance above all else, and you’ll always find some old industrial machine in the back of a shop that has somehow been running since longer than anyone remembers.

      Reminds me of how despite RoHS and all that, leaded solder is still a thing for some applications like (legacy) aviation and repairs (leaded and unleaded solder apparently don’t mix well, or rather, make things corrode or something like that)

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        14 hours ago

        I think they call that a galvanic response. Sometimes it’s favorable. Otherwise your support is galvanizing the other. Bad news.