Lead (II) carbonate hydroxide (White lead, 2 PbCO₃. Pb(OH)2)
Refers to the most important basic lead basic lead carbonate. It can be manufactured electrolytically. It has been used as a pigment in white and coloured paints but it has the considerable drawback that it is poisonous.
Lead (II) ethanoate [lead (II) acetate, Pb(CH₃CO₂)2]
Refers to a compound usually occurring as the hydrate Pb(CH₃CO₂)2.3H₂O, forming monoclinic crystals.

Lead telluride
PbTe, a crystalline solid that is very toxic if inhaled or ingested; melts at 9020C; used as a semiconductor and photoconductor in the form of single crystals.

Lead (Pb)
A metallic element of group 14 of the periodic table. It is soft grey metal and has a high density. Its important ore is galena (PbS). Lead and its compounds are used in various ways like making lead storage batteries, covering cables, tetraethyl lead (TEL), pigments in paints, as solder and as a type metal.

Lead acetate, Pb(CH₃CO)O₂
A white crystalline substance, sweet in taste. It is poisonous in nature. It is used in making white lead, in medicines and as a mordant in dyeing.
A white crystalline substance m.p. 1024°C, used as an insecticide.

Lead phosphate
Pb₃PO₄, a poisonous, white powder that melts at 10140C; soluble in nitric acid and in fixed alkali hydroxide; used as a stabiliser in plastics.

Lead silicate
PbSIO0, toxic, insoluble white crystals; used in ceramics, paints, and enamles, and to fireproof fabrics. Also known as lead metasilicate.

Lead sulphate
PbSO₄, poisonous white crystals melting at 1170C; slightly soluble in hot water, insoluble in alcohol; used in storage batteries and as a paint pigment.

Lead sulphide
PbS, blue, metallic, cubic crystals that melt at 1120C, derived from the mineral galena or by reacting hydrogen sulfide gas with a solution of lead nitrate; used in semiconductors and ceramics. Also known as plumbous sulphide.