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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. Thuja occidentalis - Wikipedia

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    Thuja occidentalis, also known as northern white-cedar, [1] eastern white-cedar, [2] or arborvitae, [2] [3] is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is native to eastern Canada and much of the north-central and northeastern United States. [3] [4] It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant.

  4. Thuja plicata - Wikipedia

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    Thuja plicata is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its common name is western redcedar in the U.S. [2] or western red cedar in the UK, [3] and it is also called pacific red cedar, giant arborvitae, western arborvitae, just cedar, giant cedar, or shinglewood. [4]

  5. Thuja - Wikipedia

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    The cultivar 'Green Giant' is popular as a very vigorous hedging plant, growing up to 80 cm/year when young. [23] The wood is light, soft and aromatic. It can be easily split and resists decay. The wood has been used for many applications from making chests that repel moths to shingles. Thuja poles are also often used to make fence posts and rails.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Poison Profits -- The Lead Paint Blame Game

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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 ...

  8. Lead white - Wikipedia

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    Lead white is a thick, opaque, and heavy white pigment composed primarily of basic lead carbonate, 2PbCO 3 ·Pb(OH) 2, with a crystalline molecular structure. [1]: 67 [2]: 43 It was the most widely produced and used white pigment in different parts of the world from antiquity until the nineteenth century, when it was displaced by zinc white and later by titanium white.

  9. 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 ...

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