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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 it is from the use of lead for pipes that we get the word ''plumbing''. |
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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==See Also== |
==See Also== |
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*[[Lead (maplet)|Lead according to Maplet's ''A Greene Forest'']] |
*[[Lead (maplet)|Lead according to Maplet's ''A Greene Forest'']] |
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Revision as of 18:51, 24 January 2006
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.
