plumbum

The term dates from ancient times, and is related to the Latin word for lead, "plumbum."

Back then lead was usually called by the Latin name "plumbum," and the pipes were "plumbing."

The word plumbing comes from the Latin word plumbum, meaning lead.

The root of our word plumbing is plumbum, the Latin word for "lead."

In the past, wood and lead (Latin plumbum, from which comes the word 'plumbing') were commonly used.

The island, inhospitable and isolated during this period, was named Plumbaria at the time, after its source of lead (plumbum).

From the Latin word plumbum for the metallic element lead (Pb).

Its chemical symbol is Pb, which comes from plumbum, the Latin word for lead.

Sir?' he asked the amputee whose buttocks and groin were embedded in grey plumbum.

(The Romans called tin plumbum album - white lead.)

A plumbline is a string with a lead (Latin plumbum) weight or plumb-bob, used to provide a vertical reference line.

The term derives from the Latin word "plumbum" (lead) and refers to the insertion of an inert substance in the pleural space.

Back then, lead was referred to by the Latin word "plumbum," and the man who fashioned and installed the pipes was called a "plumber."

We can use petrol without plumbum (unleaded gasoline) because this petrol does not release the smoke that can pollute our environment.

Plumbatae etymologically contain plumbum, or lead, and can be translated "lead-weighted [darts]".

The "plumb" in "plumb-bob" comes from the fact that such tools were originally made of lead (Latin plumbum, French plomb).

Lead's symbol, 'Pb', comes from the Latin plumbum and the English word plumber derives from this as pipes used to be made out of lead.

A war breaks out between three nations Simulacran, Argentum, and Plumbum over Simulacran's helix motor technology that powers the airships known as Simouns.

It is further suggested that, since the manor properties included lead mines in the Mendip Hills, the plum is a pun on the Latin plumbum, for lead.

The Latin plumbum weight gives us the symbol, Pb (along with words like plumb, plumb bob , and plumber one who works with lead and lead pipes.

He comes to this conclusion in Book VIII of De Architectura after empirical observation of the apparent labourer illnesses in the plumbum foundries of his time.

Lead's symbol Pb is an abbreviation of its Latin name plumbum for soft metals; the English words "plumbing", "plumber", "plumb", and "plumb-bob" also derive from this Latin root.

The Latin word for lead is plumbum, which gave its name to both the English term for this grey metallic-sheened mineral and even the leadworts or plumbagos, plants with flowers that resemble this colour.

Discussing the uses of the pipe wrench, he writes: "Up until the last century, pipe joints had to be made by hand with hot lead; hence the name 'plumber,' from the Latin word for lead: plumbum.

Up to the 17th century, tin was often not distinguished from lead: lead was called plumbum nigrum (literally, "black lead"), while tin was called plumbum candidum (literally, "bright lead").