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Lead free motors

Here is some great news for car manufacturers. Metallurgists at the University of Pittsburgh have developed lead-free steel that will allow carmakers to prepare for a new legislation in the US that will ban lead in mass-produced products. The tin-based steel will replace three million tonnes of a steel used every year worldwide to make fuel injectors, transmission parts and many other car components. ( New Scientist , Vol 162, No 2192).

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