Lead - Periodic Table of Videos
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Lead is a very soft metal and it’s easily moulded into all sorts of shapes. This is a pot, I’m not sure what it is from, I got it from an old lab that was being closed down so it was probably made for holding a strong acid because lead is very unreactive. You can see rather nicely here the white colour of lead oxide because it has oxidised over the years and this is the white material that was used for paints. This white lead paint that people use, the oxide of lead, had one rather unfortunate consequence that it reacts with sulphur in the air and in Victorian times when people burnt coal they produced a lot of sulphur, and the sulphur reacted with the lead to give a black colour which made the white paint eventually turn grey and if you waited ...
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Lead is a very soft metal and it’s easily moulded into all sorts of shapes. This is a pot, I’m not sure what it is from, I got it from an old lab that was being closed down so it was probably made for holding a strong acid because lead is very unreactive. You can see rather nicely here the white colour of lead oxide because it has oxidised over the years and this is the white material that was used for paints. This white lead paint that people use, the oxide of lead, had one rather unfortunate consequence that it reacts with sulphur in the air and in Victorian times when people burnt coal they produced a lot of sulphur, and the sulphur reacted with the lead to give a black colour which made the white paint eventually turn grey and if you waited ...
