Fumes. Lead is a metal but its used in liquidy form in paint and it can soak into the water. So when the water droplets go everywhere particles of lead that hitched a ride on them go with. And paint fumes are self explanatory
Because lead then seeps into the water and it is poisonous, causing long term health affects, particularly in children. Lead is toxic to the heart, bones, intestines, kidneys, reproductive system, and nervous system.Pb or Plumbum is Lead Whitch kills you...
Because lead is very durable and resists corrosion and has a smooth inner surface and can with stand higher pressures then other materials of the time as lead has various wall thicknesses depending on the actual working pressures Lead was used for water pipes because it is very durable and resists corrosion. Lead also has a very smooth surface, and is available in various thicknesses; allowing for the tolerance of higher water pressures than other material options.
Lead is an element, it is not made of anything but lead. But if you are talking about pencil lead then pencil lead is made of graphite.
The lead in pencils are not made out of lead, as is common belief. Pencil lead is made out of graphite.
the lead in a lead pencil is made from clay and graphite
Lead.
Plumbing
Plumbing comes from "plumbum", the Latin word for the metal Lead. Originally, pipes were made of lead.
Lead,
... Plumbing. The word comes from the Latin for for lead, plumbum, from which the pipes were made (leading to lots and lots of lead poisoning).
Lead
They used lead pipes , which the Romans used in Rome.
it's used in plumbing and pipes.
One of the names of the metal Lead- in Latin, was plumbum. Since very early plumbing used pipes made of lead, the name plumbum is the root of the word plumbing.
Copper pipes are now most commonly used in plumbing. Lead pipes were used long ago, and the word plumbing is derived from the Latin word for lead (plumbum). Iron pipes were used until relatively inexpensive copper pipes became readily available during the twentieth century.
The Latin word for lead is plumbum. Pipes used to be made from lead, which is why the trade of pipe installation is called plumbing.
From the Latin "plumbum"-lead. A plumber is a person who works with lead. Household pipes used to be made of lead, hence a person who worked on your pipes was a plumber.