Lead

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Lead is a ductile, very soft, highly malleable, bluish-white metal, which has been used by mankind for over 7,000 years. The Latin word for lead is plumbum and hence its atomic symbol is Pb, and it is from the use of lead for pipes that we get the word plumbing.

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