What was lead used for during Colonial American?
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From my understanding of history..lead was laying around in pellets all over the eastern and northeastern United States. Because it was easily melted it was as the other answer given used to make bullets, pots, pans and dinnerware. Unfortunantly for our forefathers many died young.....BECAUSE OF LEAD POISONING....sad but true.
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Use a magnet. Iron is attracted to it, lead is not.
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How about Timber - wood, for ship building. Canada has lots of lumber and the Brits were really, really into ship building around that time.\n\nGood Luck
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Graphite and clay. The ratio of clay to graphite allows control of the hardness of the lead - more clay makes a harder lead.
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You may use wheel weights or shot gun shot. Usually junk yards have lead. If you have\nany old jig heads that are no longer desirable or have broken hooks, you may also re-melt these.
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I get all my lead from tire stores.  They use it as wheel weights.  I use them for anchors.
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with plates of lead and an acid.
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You are wrong NATURAL lead is a mixture of four stable isotopes (read NON-radioactive): 204Pb, 206Pb, 207Pb, and 208Pb . These four isotopes are the end products of each of the three series of naturally occurring radioactive elements: 206Pb for the uranium series, 207Pb for the actinium series, and 208Pb for the thorium series. Twenty seven OTHER isotopes of lead, all of which are radioactive, are recognized.\n\nLead is used as shielding because of its density. Remember that there is nothing magic about lead. Wood, air or styrofoam for that matter would work as well, but because of the density differences the same amount of shielding provided by 1" of lead might take 30" of wood or 50" of styrofoam
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Economic Aspects of Tobacco during the Colonial Period 1612-1776\n\nHere's a link to this article.\n\nhttp://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/colonialtobacco.html
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Well, the early colonies didn't have techonoly, cars, music like today, movies, clothes, food, the knowledge, and the books that we have today. There are PLENTY of changes from today and the colonies. It's pretty simple if you sit down and think about it.
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it comes with a lead , try using that!!!!!!!!!!
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If it doesn't lather-up and when you rinse it off it feels slippery, not squeaky clean.\nThe Romans used lead pipes for there drinking and bathing water.  Lead poisoning has been offered as one of the reasons for the fall of the empire.  Hatters used mercury in curing the hides and would be susceptible to mercuric poisoning.
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Philip of Thesalonica, the Greek poet, in about 20 B.C., mentions the use of writing tools fashioned of lead in disc shaped pieces. The small lead disc used by the Romans to rule guidelines on papyrus may have been responsible for the error that led to identifying our family core as lead.
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I've seen it done in period films where a person licks the tip of a quill (maybe to clean off any dry ink). Some people do it lubricate the ball in a ball-point pen, but I really don't think it helps at all. I guess they just think it looks cool.\n\nLicking the 'lead' in a pencil can not harm you because it is not really lead. It is actually graphite. All modern pencils are made with it. So, there's not way you can get lead poisoning
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Hope this helps (only first ?)-\n\nThe first mass-produced pencils were made in Nuremberg, Germany in 1662. Until the war with England cut off imports, pencils used in America came from overseas. (William Monroe, a cabinetmaker in Concord, Massachusetts, made the first American wood pencils in 1812.) Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils for sale in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729. George Washington used a three-inch pencil when he surveyed the Ohio Territory in 1762. \nClick here to learn more about famous people who have used pencils.
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The mineral with the metal in it is an ore. For example the mineral Galena is lead sulphide, from which lead is extracted.\nThis mineral will typically grow in quartz veins; these surrrounding minerals holding the ore are called "gangue" minerals.  But often the veins are so narrow you have to dig out a fair bit of the so-called country rock either side of the vein; this is "waste rock" or "mullock".\n\nSo although Galena is over half lead by weight, lead might only for m a few percent of the total material dug out.
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Used to be lead, wood, metal and rubber.  Now they use graphite instead of lead.