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∙ 14y agoPb is an abbreviation for Lead.
Sometimes used in certain lamps.
When the lamp start up, it melts the lead and keeps heating it up until it turnes into a gas.
As a gasform, lead radiates a lot of light given little energy.
Most of these lamps has got some sort of filters attached to them because they radiate a lot of InfraRed light and wavelengts of light that can cause cancer.
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∙ 13y agoIt is the chemical symbol for lead. It comes from the Latin Plumbum. (note that this is where we get the word Plumbing and plumber.
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∙ 15y agoThe element lead, from plumbum, the Latin for soft metals such as lead. The words 'plumbing' and 'plumb line' come from the same Latin root.
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