What happens to lead then you overhead it beyond its melting point

[chemisttree]

If you got your "lead" from wheel weights or lead acid batteries, the hard brittle stuff left over when you distill out the lead is antimony. Antimony is hard, silver to gray and brittle. It will cause contact dermatitis, conjunctivitus (pink eye), nasal ulceration. Bad JU JU! Keep it away from any of your hydrogen experiments since it will form extremely toxic, volatile hydrides.

Find the Merck Index at your local College library and make friends with it.

Just a note... I hope that when you are doing this kind of stuff you aren't inhaling or you are using a good hood. A garage with a few open doors really won't cut it.

Berkeman,

This sounds like a warning to me! The can soot stuff is probably better on its own thread though.

 

[Jacquesl]

Just to add in, my burned up lead does not, have a silvery color, it’s more like gray. its just brittle, but not so hard and, the volume of the lead also stay the same and that's it!
I totally agree with you chemisttree, this tread can we gladly locked, for what I feel!