Lead is a heavy metal gravity or specific gravity, blue, clouds that are gray to acquire a mate. It is flexible, annals and melts easily. Lead forms alloys with many metals, and generally used in this way in most applications.

It is toxic, requires special handling.

The wider use of lead, as such, is in the manufacture of accumulators, batteries, and in coatings of electrical wiring. Other important applications are the manufacture of tetraethyl, linings for cables, building materials, pigments, soft solder, ammunition, lead weights for fishing nets in industrial piping, tanks and equipment for X-ray Also in production from toy soldiers to make up pipe organ music.

Thanks to its excellent resistance to corrosion, lead is widely used in construction, particularly in the chemical industry. It is resistant to attack by many acids it forms its own protective oxide coating, but is attacked by ruthless nitrogenous bases.

Lead is a material easy to recycle and can be reused an indefinite number of times and, although all were subject to processes of smelting and refining. It is 100% recyclable.