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(chemistry) Reasonably pure ethyl alcohol that contains at most 1% of water
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(mineralogy) A coal-black marble, usually emitting a foetid smell when rubbed.
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A brownish-red resin found in coal beds.
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(botany, dated, rare) silvery white
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(archaic) silver proteinate
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The alkali produced from the plant, an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching.
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(now historical) The metal lead.
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Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
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The white, powdery ash left when bone is burnt; it is high in calcium phosphate and is used as a fertilizer and in making bone china.
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(chemistry) A brown synthetic coal tar diazo dye.
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Alternative form of kand [(mining, UK, dialect, Cornwall) fluorspar]
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White lead, a hydrate of lead mixed with carbonate, which has come to be used as a white pigment, in cosmetics, and for medical purposes.
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Washed with a preparation of white lead.
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Lead (the metal) that is sufficiently pure to be used in making white lead by a process of corroding.
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A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.
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Alternative form of diachylon. [(medicine) A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants, later made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerine mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.]
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(art, obsolete) The yellow oxide of lead, or massicot.
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Synonym of Glauber's salt
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(uncountable) A dark shade of the color silver.
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A wax obtained by interesterification of jojoba oil with long chain alcohols; used in cosmetics, etc.
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The mold used in such a preparation.
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(uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
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(inorganic chemistry) The chemical compound PbO₂, a dark-brown solid which is insoluble in water.
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(inorganic chemistry) A yellow oxide of lead, PbO, used in the manufacture of paints and glass.
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(historical) A joint-sealing compound made from iron, sulfur, etc., that was used instead of lead (etym 1)-containing compounds.
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Lead monoxide (PbO) a toxic solid formed from the oxidisation of lead in air, and used as a pigment.
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Obsolete form of massicot. [(chemistry) lead monoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment; also, lead oxide yellow, as opposed to red lead, which is lead tetroxide Pb₃O₄.]
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Coloured rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper, lead peroxide, etc. They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate.
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Obsolete form of ochre. [An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide]
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Alternative spelling of ochre [An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide]
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A variety of onyx for cameos, a bluish-white band on the dark ground.
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Alternative form of orichalcum [A valuable yellow metal known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans; now sometimes interpreted as referring to a natural alloy of gold and copper, and sometimes treated as a mythical substance.]
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A valuable yellow metal known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans; now sometimes interpreted as referring to a natural alloy of gold and copper, and sometimes treated as a mythical substance.
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Basic bismuth nitrate, or bismuth subchloride; used chiefly as a cosmetic.
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Of or resembling platinum
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A soft, dull black powder consisting of finely divided metallic platinum obtained by reduction and precipitation from its solutions. It absorbs oxygen to a high degree, and is employed as an oxidizer.
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(medicine) The property of attracting lead.
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A brand of hand sanitizer containing alcohol.
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A solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering.
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A bright red, poisonous oxide of lead, Pb₃O₄, used as a pigment and in glass and ceramics.
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A wastewater in the manufacture of TNT.
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(archaic) A powerful depilatory fluid made from quicklime and sulphite of arsenic boiled in an alkaline solution.
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Alternative form of sandarac [(mineralogy, archaic) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.]
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(obsolete) A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium.
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Alternative form of sandix [(obsolete) A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium.]
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(chemistry, obsolete) A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.
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Alternative form of skatole [(organic chemistry) A mildly toxic white crystalline organic compound of the indole family, occurring naturally in faeces and coal tar.]
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A cosmetic containing cerussite, which was used as a skin whitener during the 16th century but caused lead poisoning.
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Alternative form of vinylon [A synthetic fiber produced from polyvinyl alcohol, using anthracite and limestone as raw materials.]
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A basic lead carbonate formerly widely used for a white pigment in paint.
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(chemistry, electronics) The white gold-aluminium intermetallic compound Au₅Al₂, which can be formed when gold and aluminium are heated in direct contact (for instance, at an electrical junction between gold and aluminium components).
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(chemistry, obsolete) A white crystalline substance obtained by adding a solution of corrosive sublimate to a solution of sal ammoniac.
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zinc oxide powder used as a pigment
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