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• Pb
  Pb

  lead.
• PB
  PB

  power brakes.
• p.b.
  p.b.

  abbreviation

  passed ball; passed balls.
• P.B.
  P.B.

  abbreviation

  British Pharmacopoeia.

Pb

¹ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. lead.

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PB ² American  

1. power brakes.

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PB ³ American  

Symbol, Computers.

1. petabyte.

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p.b. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Baseball. passed ball; passed balls.

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P.B. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. British Pharmacopoeia.

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P.B. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. Prayer Book.

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PB ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Pharmacopoeia Britannica

2. Prayer Book

3. athletics personal best

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Pb ² British  

symbol

1. lead

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Etymology

Origin of Pb¹

From the Latin word plumbum

Origin of P.B.⁵

From Latin Pharmacopoeia Britannica

Example Sentences

Mg, In, Cs, Pb, and Co would form cations because they are metals.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Metals that crystallize in an HCP structure include Cd, Co, Li, Mg, Na, and Zn, and metals that crystallize in a CCP structure include Ag, Al, Ca, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Pt.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

In practice, a voltmeter would report a potential of −0.47 V with its red and black inputs connected to the Pb and Cu electrodes, respectively.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The chemical symbol for elemental lead is Pb.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

On the negative plate an action arises between the finely divided lead and the sulphuric acid, with the result that hydrogen is set free— Pb + H2SO4 = PbSO4 + H2.

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