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Red Lead

Formula: Pb3O₄

A powerful low fire flux. Once popular for its ability to produce glazes of very good flow qualities without pinholes or other defects. It also has powerful and vibrant color responses to metallic oxides.

Out Bound Links

• (Hazards - General) Lead and Ceramics
  Inorganic Lead and Ceramics by Edouard Bastarache
• (Materials - Related) Litharge - PbO

  Lead Oxide, Lead(II) oxide, Yellow lead oxide

• (Typecodes) 1: GNM - Generic Material
• (Typecodes) 1: FLS - Flux Source
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In Bound Links

• (Hazards - Unspecified) Lead in Ceramic Glazes: What Did We Learn?
  The long slow death of lead use in ceramics taught...
• (Oxides - Material source) PbO - Lead Oxide

XML for Import into INSIGHT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<material name="Red Lead" descrip="" searchkey="Minium, Lead(II,IV) oxide" loi="0.00" casnumber="1317-36-8">
<oxides>
<oxide symbol="PbO" name="Lead Oxide" status="U" percent="97.670" tolerance=""/>
</oxides>
<volatiles>
<volatile symbol="LOI" name="Loss on Ignition" percent="2.330" tolerance=""/>
</volatiles>
</material>

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