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Definition of Antimonial lead

1. Noun. A lead alloy that contains about 5% antimony.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antimonial Lead

Literary usage of Antimonial lead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1922)
"The increasing use of the high-lead alloy now marketed as Ulco or Frary metal is also limiting the use of antimonial lead which formerly formed the base of ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"The products are slag, matte, and antimonial lead. If no ore is used the charge contains no sulphur and no matte or speiss is formed. ..."

3. Lead Smelting and Refining: With Some Notes on Lead Mining by Walter Renton Ingalls (1906)
"Formerly it was the general custom to make antimonial lead with a content of ... This is also the case with antimonial lead.1 The total production of lead ..."

4. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1882)
"antimonial lead produced 2592 met ct. Coal used for 100 met. ct. of litharge ... antimonial lead. Salable litharge. Silver 0.0015 Antimony 23.120 Oxide of ..."

5. Plattner's Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blowpipe by John H. Caswell, Carl Friedrich Plattner, Henry Bedinger Cornwall (1892)
"The coat of oxide of lead can also be entirely prevented by adding vitrified boracic acid to the antimonial lead, when the acid takes up the oxide of lead ..."

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