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Although little known to the general public, Thomas Midgley Jr., an American chemist and inventor, made two inventions which had fatal impacts on the Earth's atmosphere, namely tetraethyl lead as an additive to fuels and Freon 12 as a refrigerant.
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Edelmann, F. T. (2016). The life and legacy of Thomas Midgley Jr. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 150(1), 45–49. https://doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.150.1.45
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