- Lead is a
chemical element; it has
symbol Pb (from
Latin plumbum) and
atomic number 82. It is a
heavy metal that is
denser than most
common materials...
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Plumbum, or The
Dangerous Game (Russian: Плюмбум, или опасная игра, "Plyumbum, ili
Opasnaya igra") is a 1987
Soviet coming-of-age
drama film directed...
-
limited to
these applications. The word
derives from the
Latin for lead,
plumbum, as the
first effective pipes used in the
Roman era were lead pipes. In...
- lead(II) salts, is
soluble in water.
Known since the
Middle Ages by the name
plumbum dulce, the
production of lead(II)
nitrate from
either metallic lead or...
-
origin with
stannum and staen.
Plumbum comes from the
Latin word
plumbum meaning lead. - The
common name for
plumbum in
English is lead,
inherited directly...
- Look up lead, leaded, ledd, plumbic, or
plumbum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lead is a
chemical element with
symbol Pb and
atomic number 82. Lead...
-
ground for
placing a marker. The
plumb in
plumb bob
derives from
Latin plumbum ('lead'), the
material once used for the
weighted bob at the end. The adjective...
- (Latin aurum) for gold, "Ag" (Latin argentum) for silver, "Pb" (Latin
plumbum) for lead, "Cu" (Latin cuprum) for copper, and "Sb" (Latin stibium) for...
- on the
Plumbago species. The
generic name,
derived from the
Latin words plumbum ("lead") and
agere ("to resemble"), was
first used by
Pliny the
Elder (23-79)...
- name is a more
recent invention. For example, Pb is the
symbol for lead (
plumbum in Latin); Hg is the
symbol for
mercury (hydrargyrum in Gr****); and He...
