Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yellow lead oxide, PbO, used in storage batteries and glass and as a pigment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The yellow or reddish protoxid of lead (PbO) partially fused.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead or minium, etc. Called also
massicot .
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- noun
Lead monoxide (PbO) a toxic solid formed from the oxidisation oflead inair , and used as apigment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The ore was melted and converted into ingots, the silver separated and refined, and litharge, red lead and shot manufactured.
"Hike" to Ballycorus Chimney Dr. Eugene F.M. O'Loughlin 2008
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This man had previously bought up all the litharge from the apothecaries of Sedan and got it resold after mixing it with a few ounces of gold.
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When he had consumed all the litharge in Sedan he made no more gold, nor ever more saw his philosopher or his forty thousand crowns.
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Send to the first apothecary of your town for some litharge; throw into it one grain of the red powder which
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Having fomented with plenty of hot water, boil in the water certain of the fragrant medicines, add pounded tamarisk, roasted litharge and galls, and pour on them white wine, and oil, and the grease of a goose, pounding all together.
On Hemorrhoids 2007
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In particular, it seemed the perfect alternative to lead monoxide (PbO, litharge), the white pigment in those "lead-based" paints you hear about.
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In the latter experiment also, the culot came away without the litharge, which almost always contains traces of silver and antimony.
The Land of Midian 2003
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The latter, however, contains a remnant of litharge, possibly showing that the old Egyptians worked the silver, which may have been supplied by the Colorado quartz.
The Land of Midian 2003
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So it is, too, with inanimate things; for of these, too, some are really silver and others gold, while others are not and merely seem to be such to our sense; e.g. things made of litharge and tin seem to be of silver, while those made of yellow metal look golden.
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So it is, too, with inanimate things; for of these, too, some are really silver and others gold, while others are not and merely seem to be such to our sense; e.g. things made of litharge and tin seem to be of silver, while those made of yellow metal look golden.
fbharjo commented on the word litharge
litharge brillant stone literally: a lead ore which stores charges (PbO) and is a element of paint pigments
January 14, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word litharge
"The 4.4 ounces (126 grams) of gold dust probably had medicinal uses, as did a block of litharge, a lead oxide added to skin ointments to cure cuts and blemishes."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 154
January 3, 2017