Red Lead

Definition: Red Lead

Red Lead

Noun

1. A reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics.

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Chemistry

Mining

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Synonym: Red Lead

Crosswords: Red Lead

A lump of red lead, A red lead lump. (references; author: unknown)

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References

• The World Market for Red Lead, Orange Lead, and Lead Oxides: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Probably at Noumea, New Caledonia, as seen from USS Wasp (CV-7) on the eve of the Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion. Photo is dated 4 August 1942. Note red lead primer showing through the boot topping along her waterline and large crowd of men on her decks. Credit: NAVY.

Ship on the building ways at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, in September 1921, showing red lead paint test areas on her hull sides. Credit: NAVY.

"Men of Destroyer Division 91 crowd the foc'sle and superstructure of their ships in Sasebo, Japan, to receive their Navy Unit Commendations. During the presentation on the Mansfield, a crane crew in the background continues its task of installing new gun barrels on the De Haven. Streaks of red lead on the Collett and the Swenson in the foreground show the work that has occupied all the crews while in port. By coincidence the famed 'Sitting Duck' destroyers are berthed in their numerical order: USS De Haven (DD-727), Mansfield (DD-728), Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), and Collett (DD-730)." Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 18 December 1951. Credit: NAVY.

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Expression using "red lead": red lead ore. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

оловен миний (minium). (various references)

Czech

suřík. (various references)

Danish

triplumbumtetraoxid (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), Pb304 (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), moenje (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), jernmoenje (minium of iron). (various references)

Dutch

trilood-tetroxyde (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), Pb304 (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), menie (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), loodorthoplumbaat (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), loodmenie (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), lood-II-plumbaat (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), ijzermenie (minium of iron). (various references)

Finnish

mönjä (minium). (various references)

French

Pb304, oxyde salin de plomb, minium de plomb, minium de fer, minium. (various references)

German

Pb304 (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), Mennige (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), Eisenmennige (minium of iron), Bleimennige (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304). (various references)

Greek 

μίνιο (minium). (various references)

Hungarian

vörös ólomoxid, míniumfesték, mínium. (various references)

Indonesian

geluga, gelinggam (red dye, red paint). (various references)

Italian

Pb304 (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), ossido salino di piombo (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304), minio (lead saline oxid, minium, Pb304). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鉛丹 (minium). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

え�"た�" (minium). (various references)

Manx

leoaie yiarg (lead oxide). (various references)

Pig Latin

edray eadlay

Portuguese

zarcão (minium), Pb3O4 (minium), mínio (minium), óxido vermelho de chumbo (minium). (various references)

Russian 

свинцовый сурик. (various references)

Spanish

minio (minium). (various references)

Swedish

blymönja. (various references)

Turkish

sülüğen (cinnabar). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: deader, dealer, delead, ladder, larded, leaded, leader, raddle, reddle.

-2 letters: adder, addle, alder, dared, dedal, deled, dread, dreed, eared, elder, laded, lader, laree, readd, reded.

-3 letters: alee, dale, dare, dead, deal, dear, deed, deer, dele, dere, dree, earl, lade, lard, lead, lear, leer, rale, read, real, redd, rede, reed, reel.

-4 letters: add, ale, are.

+1 letter: deadlier, declared, derailed, heralded, laddered, redialed, reloaded, resaddle, treadled.

+2 letters: daredevil, glandered, laundered, leotarded, overladed, redialled, rehandled, repleaded, resaddled, resaddles, slandered.

+3 letters: bandleader, bedraggled, calendared, calendered, daredevils, degradable, degradedly, depravedly, disrelated, endodermal, freeloaded, ladderlike, lavendered, overloaded, saddlebred, saddleries, saddlesore, saddletree, skedaddler, stepladder, undeclared, unheralded.

+4 letters: addressable, adrenalized, adulterated, bandleaders, bladderlike, clearheaded, coldhearted, daredevilry, decelerated, deflagrated, deliberated, demoralized, depolarized, deregulated, descrambled, edulcorated, engarlanded, federalized, griddlecake, interlarded, leaderboard, lifeguarded, overhandled, overpedaled, overplaided, paraldehyde, philandered, redisplayed, revalidated, saddlebreds, saddletrees, skedaddlers, stepladders, underlapped, underplayed, undervalued, unlaundered.