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PRONUNCIATION OF RED LEAD

red lead  [lɛd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RED LEAD

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Red lead is a noun.
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WHAT DOES RED LEAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

red lead

Lead(II,IV) oxide

Lead oxide, also called minium, red lead or triplumbic tetroxide, is a bright red or orange crystalline or amorphous pigment. Chemically, red lead is Pb3O4, or 2 PbO·PbO2. Lead oxide is used in the manufacture of batteries, lead glass and rust-proof primer paints.

Definition of red lead in the English dictionary

The definition of red lead in the dictionary is a bright-red poisonous insoluble oxide of lead usually obtained as a powder by heating litharge in air. It is used as a pigment in paints. Formula: Pb3O4 Also called: minium.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RED LEAD

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WORDS THAT END LIKE RED LEAD

balm of Gilead
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Synonyms and antonyms of red lead in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «red lead» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RED LEAD

Find out the translation of red lead to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of red lead from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «red lead» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

红丹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

minio
570 millions of speakers

English

red lead
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लाल नेतृत्व
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رصاص أحمر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

свинцовый сурик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fio vermelho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লাল সীসা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fil rouge
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memimpin merah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mennige
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

鉛丹
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

적색 리드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Timbal abang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chì đỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிவப்பு முன்னணி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लाल लीड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kırmızı kurşun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

minio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

minia ołowiana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

свинцевий сурик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plumb roșu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Μίνιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rooi lood
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mönja
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blymønje
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RED LEAD»

The term «red lead» is regularly used and occupies the 73.611 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RED LEAD» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RED LEAD»

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Red Lead and How to Use It in Paint
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Alvah Horton Sabin, 2010
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Symposium on Paint and Paint Materials: Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Regional Meeting American Society for Testing Materials. Red Lead Red lead, as its name indicates, is a red pigment and is one of the oxides of lead which might best be described as tri-lead tetroxide. Litharge is lead monoxide, ...
American Society for Testing Materials, 1935
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European Coatings Handbook
Lead-containing anti-corrosive pigments A whole series of lead-containing anti- corrosive pigments has been developed, of which red lead is by far the most important. In accordance with DIN 55 916, red lead (Pb3O4) contains at least 93.2 ...
Thomas Brock, Michael Groteklaes, Peter Mischke, 2000
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Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology
See also lead, lead poisoning. lead orthoplumbate. lead oxide red. lead oxalate. a poisonous, heavy, water-insoluble white powder, PbC.O4. See also lead, lead poisoning. lead oxide. lead monoxide. lead(II) oxide. lead monoxide. lead oxide ...
Robert Alan Lewis, 1998
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A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
39; New Mild/lie Aaid In Sibefian Rd Lia!absorb, in order to combine with acids, 12 parts of oxygen, the 57,l of metallic lead must ikontain in the red lead 6,86 of this principle; which leaves the weight of the mineralising acid 36,4. Experiment 6 .
William Nicholson, 1799
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National Directory of Commodity Specifications: Classified ...
(To cover two grades RL dry red lead pigment, suitable for use in priming paints for steel and in paint mixtures for miscellaneous purposes.) 'American Society for Testing Materials, D Bit—24,1924: Red lead. (Dry pigment or ground in oil to ...
United States. National Bureau of Standards, Addams Stratton McAllister, 1925
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Field Applied Paints and Coatings
at Atlantic City. Due to the economic structure of basic lead chromate, it was notable to compete with the more widely used zinc yellow or red lead. 4) Red Lead is one of those pigments which dates back to ancient times. Vitruvius, about 15 ...
‎1959
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Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary and Optical Microscopy of ...
More commonly known under the name 'red lead', it is the synthetic analogue of the mineral minium (q.v.; Dunn, 1973c). Historically, the most widely cited technique for the production of red lead was through conversion of another lead ...
Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, 2008
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Pigment Compendium
More commonly known under the name 'red lead', it is the synthetic analogue of the mineral minium (q.v.; Dunn, 1973c). Historically, the most widely cited technique for the production of red lead was through conversion of another lead ...
Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, 2008
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Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments
More commonly known under the name 'red lead', it is the synthetic analogue of the mineral minium (q.v.; Dunn, 1973c). Historically, the most widely cited technique for the production of red lead was through conversion of another lead ...
Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, 2007

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RED LEAD»

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Plumbonacrite: The Red Lead Reason Van Gogh's Paintings Are …
Red lead (minium, or lead(II,IV) oxide) is a lead oxide whose composition is Pb3O4 and whose color varies over time. Sometimes the color darkens or blackens ... «Science 2.0, Mar 15»

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