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2. Lead paint - Wikipedia

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   In art, white lead paint is known as flake white or Cremnitz white. It is valued for the ease of handling and resilience the lead confers to oil paints. Lead white paint dries relatively quickly to form a strong, flexible paint film. Lead-based white is one of the oldest manufactured pigments.

3. Lead-based paint in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The District of Columbia defines "lead-based paint" as any "paint, surface coating that contains lead equal to or exceeding 0.7 milligram per square centimeter (0.7 mg/cm2) or 0.5% by weight." [9] This is more stringent than the HUD lead-based paint standard of 1.0 mg/cm2) . Some states have adopted this or similar definitions of "lead-based ...

4. How to test for lead paint in your home and what to do if you ...

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   Lead was often mixed into oil-based paints before 1978, the year lead paint was banned for residential use in the U.S. Over time, oil-based paints will crack in a distinctive alligator scale-like ...

5. White lead - Wikipedia

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   White lead is the basic lead carbonate 2PbCO 3 ·Pb(OH) 2. [1] It is a complex salt, containing both carbonate and hydroxide ions. White lead occurs naturally as a mineral, in which context it is known as hydrocerussite, [1] a hydrate of cerussite. [2] It was formerly used as an ingredient for lead paint and a cosmetic called Venetian ceruse ...

6. Lead abatement in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Child lead poisoning linked to lead-based paints. 1909 France, Belgium and Austria ban white-lead interior paint. 1914 Pediatric lead-paint poisoning death from eating crib paint is described. 1921 Tetraethyllead is first used in gasoline. 1921 National Lead Company admits lead is a poison. 1922

7. Poison Profits -- The Lead Paint Blame Game - The Huffington Post

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   From that month through January 2016, HPD issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under 6, the age group most at risk of ingesting toxic paint. Half of the violations were in just 10 percent of the city’s zip codes, low-income neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn and northern Manhattan, a ...