Bonne Terre and the Lead

[Wookie]

Really, lead is an inhalation hazard in the form of Load Oxide (PbO2) and as an ingestion hazard in pretty much any form. Don't inhale or drink the water and you'll be fine. You can drink the water if you want, the lead would rather stay bonded with the sulpher (in the form of sulfide) than to become free and get into the water. Lead is only truly hazardous when it isn't bonded with anything else. Then it bonds with you.

 

[Hatul]

Anyone have a link to the analysis of the water in the mine?

 

[The Chairman]

I think it's funny that the Pb symbol for lead comes from its Latin name, plumbumb. Now we know how plumbing got its name!

 

[Hatul]

I think it's funny that the Pb symbol for lead comes from its Latin name, plumbumb. Now we know how plumbing got its name!

One theory for the downfall of the Roman Empire is the slow poisoning caused by their lead water pipes.

 

[The Chairman]

One theory for the downfall of the Roman Empire is the slow poisoning caused by their lead water pipes.

The original plumber's crack?

 

[RIteen]

@Wookie: Covalent bonding at its best....