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Basic Lead Sulfate
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JOHN S. NORDYKE
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Several basic lead sulfate compounds
were used as paint pigments. These are
called sublimed, or supersublimed white
Pigment White 2 Colour Index Number 77633 Sublimed White Lead Basic Sulfate, White Lead Super Sublimed White Lead Barlet White Lead Lewis White Lead Chemical Formula (mixture)
Normal Lead Sulfate PbSO<(MW 303.27) Monobasic Lead Sulfate PbSO^ PbO (MW 526.48)
lead (PbSO* PbO), and precipitated basic lead sulfate (PbSO< Pb(OH)j).
Tetrabasic lead sulfate (PbSC>4 4Pb(OH)2) has had little if any use in paints or plastics. It does have a substantial and continuing use, however, in storage batter ies used by telephone companies for emer gency power purposes. It is used in the positive plates only. Batteries in which te trabasic lead sulfate is used as the active positive material have a life expectancy of up to 30 years. Those using conventional
lead oxide as the active positive material
Public Law $1*695 enacted by the Cdttgrees have shorter life expectancy. Tribasic lead
^ signed by the President in January sulfate (3PbO PbS04 X(OH),,) is the most
(197J, effectively eliminated the use of#sad widely used of all vinyl stabilizers, both in
pigments in paints for residential structures the United States and abroad. These two
in the United States. Subsequent legislation are the most widely used of the basic lead
and regulations have progressively reduced sulfate pigments.