The Truth About Lead

The Truth About Lead is an interesting video produced by the Lead Sheet Training Academy about lead facts and is worth a watch.

Truth About Lead – ALM (associatedlead.co.uk)

Here are a few facts that you may find interesting:

• One of the oldest building products, first used 9000 years ago
• Lead is a natural long lasting material
• Over half the lead produced today is used in lead-acid car batteries
• Lead is cost effective and easy to use in all conditions and weathers
• Lead is a cumulative poison. Unlike many toxins, there really is no safe exposure level to lead, even though it is present in many common materials.
• Lead is one of the most recycled building materials used today
• The chemical symbol for lead is Pb, which comes from the Latin word plumbum, meaning “waterwork” It is an extremely dense but malleable metal that is very resistant to corrosion.
• Wood pencils have never actually contained lead, even though lead is soft enough it could be used for writing. Pencil lead is a type of graphite