Sentence examples for lead monoxide from inspiring English sources
noun
The oxide of lead, PbO, that occurs as the minerals litharge and massicot
Litharge, or lead monoxide (PbO), is one of the most important of all metal compounds.
This paper reports high-performance inverted PSCs with lead monoxide (PbO -modified indium tin oxide (ITO) as the cathodes.
2. Miscellaneous soft solids: a variety of inorganic solids such as white lead, lime, talc, bentonite, silver iodide, and lead monoxide are used as lubricants.
Photocurrent spectroscopy has been used to investigate the formation of lead monoxide in the corrosion layer at lead electrodes in sulphuric acid.
The pieces were japanned with a preparation made from linseed oil, umber (a brown oxide of iron), litharge (a lead monoxide), and, for the dark ground on which the colourful decoration is based, asphalt, or coal-tar pitch.
C.W. Scheele, a Swedish chemist, discovered in 1779 that glycerol could be obtained from olive oil by heating it with litharge (lead monoxide), but it was not until about 1815 that the French chemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786 1889) demonstrated the chemical nature of fats and oils.
In most of the OECD countries, emissions of lead, carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide have been falling steadily since 1980.
Levels of four of the six airborne pollutants regulated by the act - lead, carbon monoxide, particulates and sulfur dioxide - are down significantly.
Over the 30 years since the passage of the federal Clean Air Act, pollutants like lead, carbon monoxide and especially the gritty black soot that was long one of the region's most hallowed, if hated, symbols, have all sharply declined.
In 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency classified all the counties making up the New York metropolitan region as "nonattainment areas," meaning the region exceeded at least one national air pollution standard for lead, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide.
Agency officials say the decision was made for two reasons: the agency has issued two other reports on climate this year, and the annual report is mainly meant to track pollutants that directly threaten people or ecosystems -- substances like lead, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain.
