📚 noun • entry_id 54005
white lead
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albayalde
A basic lead carbonate, particularly (historical) as once widely used for white paint, whitening cosmetics, and early medicine.
Such eminent and renowned scientists as Fourcroy, Berthollet and Vauquelin all enthusiastically supported zinc white, the defects of which "are so slight compared to the disadvanta…
The beginning of a new episode of work for Bradly was an agitated niggling over six-by-four squares of cardboard coated with size and white lead, prepared by himself to save an exp…
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