Remember when all the kids were all dying from eating led paint?
Why was led put into paint in the first place? Isn’t led…heavy? Wouldn’t it like…weigh down the paint?
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To kill the kids duh
But how did heavy paint even stay on walls seimi?
something about durability and drying agent something and to increase the success rate of catching cancer.
I think you mean “lead”
That doesnt make sense except the cancer part
The screams of children created a sort of sonic frequency that galvanised it to the wall.
doh! the wall is heavier. it can carry the paint
As for your question about lead being heavy, it's true that lead is a dense metal. However, the amount of lead used in paint was relatively small, so it didn't significantly affect the paint's weight or application. The benefits of lead in paint outweighed the minor inconvenience of its weight for many years.
The health risks associated with lead paint, particularly lead poisoning in children, were not fully understood until the mid-20th century. This led to the eventual ban of lead-based paints in many countries, including the United States in 1978.
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I think they must have mixed it with superglue. I was thinking maybe magnets but then I remembered leader isn't magnetic.
Damnit I’m high. It’s “lead” not led 😂
Whats heavier a kilo of wall or a kilo of paint?
Wall obviously 😏
This was too helpful of an answer 🤭🫂
They would just bend it into the walls. It's very easy application
Fucking autocorrect. I changed it to "lead" 3 fucking times and it still changed it back.
Please let nostr nostr
I know 😣 it’s a stoner scramble brain thing that happens to me sometimes
Autocorrect agrees apparently.
This makes sense to me
it's a dirty medium green color that is the lead oxide. if you look at old non-jacketed bullets the projectile gradually acquires a mucky green patina. it's not as blue as copper green, more grey.
it was a popular color for some time. especially if it's blended with some zinc oxide it's quite a pleasant pastel green.
to be fair, the romans used it for their household water pipes.
I feel like we’re asking the right questions 🫂
lead for white colors and corrosion resistance longivity
This is blowing my mind
Huh?
This raises an interesting point, I don't know what it is yet, but I'll figure it out.
In other news, why does everything reduce sperm count. Why aren't there environmental poisons that make communities awash in fertile jizzum?
lol makes me feel normal for my spelling
It made the paint taste gud
Interesting
Odd
They used to put lead in paint to make it last longer and look shinier, even though it was heavy.
I think some sperms are the little bitch kids that you don’t want to have so they run away from the slightest disturbance whereas the sperms that can survive are strong, cool sperm that we should be having so it’s just a way to weed out the losers
That’s what I’m really upset about. My paint doesn’t taste as good anymore
Lead is very soft it bends easily
I’m glad you were led to understand it’s spelled lead
Metal hard. Metal no bend
I fucking hate myself for it, you have no idea how mad I am 😂
Alwayshasbeen.jpeg.
Tin foil?
Bimetalic strips?
They bend
Although iron maiden never bent they rock hard
Tin foil isn’t real metal. That’s bitch metal
Like lead metal its poisonus too
No, lead makes people retarded mostly not so much dead. Lead is cheap and was used in a lot of shit makeup, water pipes, and paint.
They added lead to make the paint dry quicker and be more resistant to moisture (good for houses). Sometimes it was used to get a specific pigmant but that was rarer.
*lead
Kids eat paint?
Imagine wearing heavy makeup 😅
I KNOW BITCHHH
Almost exclusively
😂
First time I hear about kids eating paint 😂
Is this legit or is this another conspiracy to ban something good "to protect the kids"?
Back in the day, they put lead in paint and kids were eating the paint chips
No kids where dying from lead paint.
Have you ever seen a kid chip paint off the wall and eat it ever in your whole life?
That was just their excuse to remove it.
Ya know, so your wifi router can tell them where your at 24/7 today....
Does lead taste good? Makes me wonder 🤔
It was particularly useful on structural steel components and was driven by its exceptional corrosion resistance, durability, adhesion, chemical resistance, and flexibility.
These properties made it an ideal choice for protecting steel structures in a variety of harsh environments, from bridges and industrial equipment to ship hulls and buildings.
Housing was a poor application because of the toxic nature of the medium.
As like computers, the outputs are only as good as the users and their inputs.
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Probably to make it easier to store and transfer
Do not worry, Led Zeppelin did it first 🫂
Probably 🤷♀️😂
Lead good for buildy buildy, I think I got it 🤓
Yeah but it’s heavy so why no fall off walls?
Tehehe that’s probably what my brain was doing
Whoa man, that’s heavy.
#hitsblunt
Right?
Who said it’s heavy? Those pencils at school were super light. I threw them all over the place
Those were technically graphite tho, right? I’m confused
The real problem was all those lead painted houses blocking radiation.
We couldn't have that now could we?
This is probably the right answer but what do I know? I came from the generation of paint eaters 🤪
Really heavy, I just ripped my dab pen and stumbled on this.
I also ate the paint
Yeah ppl are more concentrated on why they put it in paint and less on how heavy the paint must have been 😂
I think about all the lead fishing sinkers I was exposed to as a kid. We'd literally chomp down on them to squish them onto the fishing line.
That's not to mention the fumes from melting the lead to pour them into molds.
The shit we used to do with Mercury as kids also makes me cringe. It's a wonder I'm not fully retarded. Or maybe it was all bullshit to stop us experimenting with these metals?
I’ve bit down on so many spit shot over the years. I also remember rolling mercury around in the palm of my hand in middle school. They really should have kept an eye on us better. I’m pretty sure I’m partially retarded, just not sure from what.
I’m more confused. I was told they are lead pencils and I would buy the 0.5 size.
No. They just lied and called them lead for some reason
Looked it up and found this answer
“Lead was added to paint because it made the paint more durable, resistant to moisture, and faster-drying, while also creating bright, vibrant colors”
Yeah some other people already did but the answer I want is why lead paint doesn’t fall off the walls because lead heavy
Heavy thread indeed.
That was a good sales pitch too. Like in the 80's right?
is that kilo wet or dry? 😏
it's called science! 🤣
Now, you do. You are welcome. 🤗
I’m glad you like bread, because I’m gonna give you a knuckle sandwich
I wanna taste some lead paint and regular paint, then see what the fuss is all about
And then do a blind taste test when you become a full blown paint connoisseur 🤌
I was imagining bright ass LED glowing walls and retarded children smeared in starlight running around like it was the Great Depression. Thanks for the laugh, homie.
I often think about things like that too. It's like, why are so many old houses in europe built before 1990 full of asbestos?
Lead is in the paint to increase its robustness and improve its covering power, and some color pigments also contain lead. Pigments are made from metals.