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  2. Thomas Midgley Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment.

  3. List of Microsoft codenames - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions before the official release.

  4. Microsoft Store - Wikipedia

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    The Microsoft Store (formerly known as the Windows Store) is a digital distribution platform operated by Microsoft.It was created as an app store for Windows 8 as the primary means of distributing Universal Windows Platform apps.

  5. Dichlorodifluoromethane - Wikipedia

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    Dichlorodifluoromethane (R-12) is a colorless gas popularly known by the genericized brand name Freon (as Freon-12). It is a chlorofluorocarbon halomethane (CFC) used as a refrigerant and aerosol spray propellant .

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  7. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    1951 LEO I 'Lyons Electronic Office' [1] was the commercial development of EDSAC computing platform, supported by British firm J. Lyons and Co.; 1953 DYSEAC - an early machine capable of distributing computing

  8. Refrigerant - Wikipedia

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    In 1928 Thomas Midgley Jr. created the first non-flammable, non-toxic chlorofluorocarbon gas, Freon (R-12). The name is a trademark name owned by DuPont (now Chemours) for any chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC), or hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant.

  9. We Tried 8 Store-Bought Cinnamon Rolls and These Were the Best

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    150 calories, 5 grams fat, 11 grams sugar. Hill Country Fare is Texas grocer H-E-B's house brand, which we included to see how well a local grocery chain could make cinnamon rolls.