{"id":2753,"date":"2026-08-01T21:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:38:13","slug":"lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lead is a heavy, soft metal long used in construction, batteries and radiation shielding but limited today due to toxicity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Lead<\/strong> | It is malleable, corrosion resistant in many environments and forms stable +2 and +4 oxidation states in compounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Lead<\/strong> | Mined from galena and other ores, lead is used in lead acid batteries, radiation shielding, solder historically and some industrial compounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Lead<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Pb 204 to Pb 208; lead is neurotoxic, especially to children, and exposure is tightly regulated with remediation efforts for contaminated sites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dense, malleable metal historically used in pipes, batteries and shielding with toxicity concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5894,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}