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Pb

Lead

Z 
82
Mass 
207.2
Lifeforce 
Earth

Dense, heavy, easy to shape, so the Romans built their pipes from it, and we poured it into every gas tank. The toxic part we noticed afterwards.

A terraced slope with laid stone foundations and visible roots; a figure sets a stone in place.
Plate · Earth Earth never hurries. It holds, stone by stone, whatever is meant to last.

Lead. Element eighty-two. Dense, heavy, easily shaped. Built Roman pipes, filled every pencil, was in every gas tank. Toxic. We know now.

Lab note · Element 82: dense and heavy, yet easy to shape.

Tool · Cosmic origin

Where your atoms come from

Pb · Supernova

Born in supernova explosions, the death of massive stars scattering their innards across the galaxy.

65 of the 118 elements share this origin.

Choose a stage: click, or arrow keys. · Cosmic nucleosynthesis · current standard model

Tool · Periodic table

Your place in the system

  • Fire
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  • Air
  • Earth
  • Source

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