Meaning of lead carbonate | Babel Free

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Any lead salt containing both carbonate and hydroxide ions.

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“Lead⟳ carbonate is slightly soluble in water, is insoluble in basic solution and is soluble in ammonium acetate and in acid solution.”

“Hock and colleagues [13] have⟳ suggested a more complex mechanism to explain⟳ why cement stabilizes lead⟳: the formation of lead⟳ carbonates.”

“A related lead⟳ carbonate hydroxide oxide mineral, plumbonacrite (q.v.; Pb₁₀(CO₃)₆O(OH)₆), also exists.”

“Micro-Raman analysis clearly showed the difference between the initial lead⟳ oxide (PbO) and lead⟳ carbonates (hydrocerussite and plumbonacrite mostly) whereas PbO associated to the black inclusion features progressively appears in the spectra.”

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