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a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
Also called lead monoxide, lead oxide, plumbous oxide.
Compare red lead.
Origin:
1350–1400; earlier litarge, litharge, Middle English litarge < Middle French, apocopated variant of litargire < Latin lithargyrus < Greek lithárgyros spume of silver, equivalent to lith- lith- + árgyros silver
1350–1400; earlier litarge, litharge, Middle English litarge < Middle French, apocopated variant of litargire < Latin lithargyrus < Greek lithárgyros spume of silver, equivalent to lith- lith- + árgyros silver
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Litharge
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| litharge (ˈlɪθɑːdʒ) | |
| —n | |
| another name for lead monoxide | |
| [C14: via Old French from Latin lithargyrus, from Greek, from lithos stone + arguros silver] | |
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litharge
one of two mineral forms of lead(II) oxide (PbO). It is found with the other form, massicot, as dull or greasy, very heavy, soft, red crusts in the oxidized zone of lead deposits, as at Cucamonga Peak and Fort Tejon, Calif., U.S., and near Hailey, Idaho, U.S. For mineralogic properties, see oxide mineral (table). Synthetic lead(II) oxide is called litharge, though it is a mixture of litharge and massicot.
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