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    • Selection of Roman lead waterpipes found in the Rhone river.
    Rights: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0 Published 20 June 2019 Size: 1.1 MB Referencing Hub media

    Lead is easy to mould and is non-corrosive so the ancient Romans used it to make waterpipes. The Latin word for lead is plumbum and is the origin of the English word plumbing.

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      Lead

      Lead is a chemical element – a substance that contains only one type of atom. Its official chemical symbol is Pb, and its atomic number is 82, which means that a lead atom has 82 protons in its ...

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