Definition of Lead ore

1. Noun. Ore containing lead.

Generic synonyms: Ore
Specialized synonyms: Massicot, Massicotite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lead Ore

lead encephalopathy
lead fiddle
lead gout
lead guitar
lead guitars
lead hopping
lead hydride
lead hydroxide stain
lead line
lead monoxide
lead neuropathy
lead nowhere
lead off
lead on
lead ore (current term)
lead out
lead oxide
lead palsy
lead paralysis
lead pencil
lead plant
lead poisoning
lead radioisotope
lead sheet
lead shot
lead single
lead someone down the garden path
lead stomatitis
lead storage battery

Literary usage of Lead ore

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

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Of this total; 73361 tons of ore were raised in England and Wales, producing 54363 Ions of lead. More than one-halp'of the lead ore and lead produced in ..."

2. Philosophical Magazine (1805)
"J. HERE are mines of lead ore, of a good quality, on the western side of this county, which have been very productive. The bog mine, in the parish of ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"Rapid Formation of lead ore BY HA WHEELER, EM, ST. LOUIS, MO. (New York Meeting, February, 1920) THAT lead and zinc deposits are the result of prolonged, ..."

4. The Mining Magazine (1853)
"It is both of the broad foliated kind, commonly called potters' lead ore, and of the small foliated kind, usually denominated steel-grained ore. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... may abo be named, although, containing 13 per ccut of copper besides 42'3 per cent, of lead, it is rather a copper than a lead ore. ..."

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