Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lead carbonate

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables: lead- -car-bon-ate
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any lead salt containing both carbonate and hydroxide ions.

Example Sentences

"Lead carbonate is slightly soluble in water, is insoluble in basic solution and is soluble in ammonium acetate and in acid solution."
"Hock and colleagues [13] have suggested a more complex mechanism to explain why cement stabilizes lead: the formation of lead carbonates."
"A related lead carbonate hydroxide oxide mineral, plumbonacrite (q.v.; Pb₁₀(CO₃)₆O(OH)₆), also exists."
"Micro-Raman analysis clearly showed the difference between the initial lead oxide (PbO) and lead carbonates (hydrocerussite and plumbonacrite mostly) whereas PbO associated to the black inclusion features progressively appears in the spectra."

Inflected Forms

lead carbonates (plural)

Synonyms

white lead ceruse

Questions

What does lead carbonate mean?: Any lead salt containing both carbonate and hydroxide ions.

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