Question

trilead trioxide decomposition

Answer 1

ointments; manufacture colorless glass; glaze for faience; flux for porcelain painting, protective paint for iron and steel; oil-color for ship paints, varnishes; coloring rubber; cement for glass, gas and steam pipes; storage batteries; pencils for writing on glass; manufacture of lead peroxide, matches. It was also used as traditional medicine. HUMAN EXPOSURE AND TOXICITY: One hundred forty-one adults consumed paprika contaminated with lead tetroxide (red lead). Fifty-three patients had symptoms and signs of lead poisoning. The most common clinical signs were colic and/or anemia. Twenty-six persons showed increased lead absorption without clinical symptoms and signs. ANIMAL STUDIES: Liver and kidney damage were evident in rats treated with a high dose of azarcon (lead tetroxide salt; 1.1 g/kg/day p.o. for 96 hr), while the effects with the pure compound were similar in type but lower in magnitude.
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