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Evidence from glacier ice: Until it was banned, leaded gasoline dominated the anthropogenic lead emissions in South America

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The introduction of leaded gasoline in the 1920s initiated a period of unabated growth in the global emissions of Pb. Apart from combustion of leaded gasoline, major sources of anthropogenic Pb emissions include mining, metallurgical processing, and coal burning. Resources. Eichler, G. Gramlich, T. Kellerhals, L.