White Lead Definition

White Lead Sentence Examples

• Any residue consists of black mercuric sulphide (and possibly white lead sulphate), in which mercury is confirmed by its usual tests.

• In regard to the ancients' knowledge of lead compounds, we may state that the substance described by Dioscorides as, uoXv,3Saiva was undoubtedly litharge, that Pliny uses the word minium in its present sense of red lead, ana that white lead was well known to Geber in the 8th century.

• Pliny mentions it under the name of minium, but it was confused with cinnabar and the red arsenic sulphide; Dioscorides mentions its preparation from white lead or lead carbonate.

• A basic chloride, Pb(OH)Cl, was introduced in 1849 by Pattinson as a substitute for white lead.

• It thus appears that white lead and sugar of lead were undifferentiated.