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Notes for a History of Lead, and an Inquiry into the Development of the Manufacture of White Lead and Lead Oxides is a historical survey of the development of the lead industry. This volume includes information on the extraction, processing, and use of lead, as well as the social and economic impacts of the industry on communities around the world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Lead inorganic compounds, Monoxides, Dioxides, Red lead, Lead (II) oxide, Lead dioxide, Electric cells, Chemical properties, Chemical analysis and testing, Physical properties of materials, Particle size distribution
Excerpt from Notes for a History of Lead, and an Inquiry Into the Development of the Manufacture of White Lead and Lead Oxides This compilation is the result of a promise to a friend to prepare a paper upon the History of Lead, to be read at a social meeting of a trade club. My interest in the subject persisted after the paper was prepared, and I continued to collect notes, at such times as a busy man of affairs could spare, with no purpose or plan other than to gratify a thoroughly aroused interest in the subject, and as a relaxation and a relief from the friction and perplexities of business. Le Febvre, in his "Compendious Body of Chymistry," published early in the seventeenth century, say...
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Presents characteristics, behavior, occurrence, isolation and uses of the element. 10 yrs+