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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

Hawes already had a 1985 company document showing frit contained more than 1 percent lead oxide, a teratogen, but found it to be of little value.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2015

The source was eventually identified as a lead oxide sweetener added to the wine - and then eliminated via what was possibly the world's first formal ban on the use of lead.

From BBC Oct. 11, 2014

When present in sufficient quantity the five last-named give enamel-white beads; lead oxide in excess gives a yellowish bead.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

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