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lead oxide

American  
[led] / lɛd /

noun

  1. litharge.

  2. any oxide of lead, as red lead.


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Its ingredients include lead oxide, quartz and gold dust.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2022

The lead oxide plates are connected to the positive or cathode terminal of the cell.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Accounting for its other constituents, like silicon dioxide, and doing some simple math, she concluded that frit was about 62 percent lead oxide.

From Slate • Jul. 2, 2015

Meanwhile, glassmakers learned that adding in some lead oxide would yield glassware such as wine decanters that would glisten, because the lead refracted the light across a wider arc.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2014

It was furthermore observed that the films dry to a more brittle and harder skin than is the case when lead oxide is used.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.

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