red lead in English

noun
1
a red form of lead oxide used as a pigment.
Pigments such as red lead , white lead, Spanish brown, and indigo blue were mixed with water and size (animal skin glue) to make paint.
noun
    minium

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1. Unlike red lead and vermilion, these are not poisonous.

2. This means moving the red lead to the potential slot and turning the knob to " V " for " volts ".

3. Bismuth trioxide is commonly used to produce the "Dragon's eggs" effect in fireworks, as a replacement of red lead.

4. PbO2 + 2 OH− + 2 H2O → Pb(OH)2− 6 Lead also has an oxide with mixed +2 and +4 oxidation states, red lead (Pb 3O 4), also known as minium.

5. Lead could be added directly to a ceramic body in the form of a lead compound in suspension, either from galena (PbS), red lead (Pb3O4), white lead (2PbCO3·Pb(OH)2), or lead oxide (PbO).

6. ‘Blue Bice, however, has also been used to refer to the pigment produced from grinding the copper carbonate mineral azurite.’ ‘Houses may be done with red lead; the tiles with vermilion or Bice to represent blue slate.’ ‘Repeated coats of lime have entirely covered all "gold, vermilion, and blue Bice".’