white-lead

Worst of all is the lead dust in the white-lead trades.

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And here are a few specific cases of white-lead poisoning: -

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Here is a description of the typical dissolution of a young, healthy, well-developed girl who goes to work in a white-lead factory: -

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Mr. Vaughan Nash, speaking of the unborn generation, says: "The children of the white-lead worker enter the world, as a rule, only to die from the convulsions of lead poisoning -- they are either born prematurely, or die within the first year."

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But besides, lead is naturally cold, as that which, being dissolved in vinegar, makes the coldest of all poisons, called white-lead; and stones, by reason of their density, raise cold in the bottom of the water.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

But besides, lead is naturally cold, as that which, being dissolved in vinegar, makes the coldest of all poisons, called white-lead; and stones, by reason of their density, raise cold in the bottom of the water.

Symposiacs 2004

But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

No, no! as she is there, she can still deceive; but if this white-lead is washed off, her wrinkles will come out plainly.

Plutus 2000

Albert le Grand (1193-1280) succeeded in producing potassium lye, and was the first to describe the chemical composition of cinnabar, white-lead and minium.

FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles 1998

Mandela was imprisoned by South Africa's white-lead government for

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997