Smokeless Boon?
7th July 1967, Page 58
7th July 1967
Page 58
Page 58, 7th July 1967
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Keywords :
Petroleum Products, Energy, Chemistry, Soft Matter, Gasoline Additive, Lubricant, Paraffin, Diesel Fuel, Gasoline, Oil
MENTION "smog" in Cape Town, South Africa, and the locals will not have the haziest idea what you're talking about. But a Capetonian claims to have invented a fuel additive which produces almost complete combustion. He is engineer Henry Broquet and his additive—which, I hear, works equally well with diesel oil, petrol or paraffin—is a heat-activated lubricant whose essential elements are antimony, tin, lead and mercury.
Tests with white mice, says Mr. Broquet, showed that an engine which killed one in under a minute ran so clean with the fuel additive that another mouse inhaled the fumes for 10 minutes without illeffects.