lead

(led) [L. plum’ bum). A soft, gray-blue metal with poisonous salts; symbol, Pb. 1. acetate (L. plum’bi ace’tas), sugar of lead; a sweetish, white, ic salt, used in the preparation of lead-water. Goulard’s extract, Goulard’s cerate, etc. It is astringent, anodyne, and discutient. 1. bit an mate. See lead tannate. black-l. See graphite. 1. carbonate (L. plum’bi carbo'nas), ceruse; a basic salt, (PbCO,), PLCOH) used as an application to burns and inflamed surfaces. 1. chlorid (L. plum’bi chlo’ridum), horn lead, PbCl,: anodyne and astringent. 1. iodid (L. plum’bi tod’- idum), a yellow, crystalline powder, Pbl;; resolvent and astringent. 1. monoxid (L. plum’bi ox/idum), a binary compound, PbO, called Jitharge when crystalline and ma icot when amorphous: much used in plasters, etc., and in the treatment of burns. 1. nitrate (L. plum’ bi ni’- tvas), a sweetish, crystalline agent, Pb(NOy,)2: astringent, detergent, and deodorant. 1. oleate, a white powder, used in diachylon fre HaaQn)2: ointment, etc. See. monoxid and |. tetroxid. 1. subacetate, a basic acetate of lead. 1, tannate (L. plum’bi tan’nas), a yellow-gray powder; anodyne and astringent: used in ointments for bed-sores, etc. 1. tetroxid, red lead, or minium, Pb,O,: it may be used like the monoxid.