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- U.S. EPA Lead Programs - Information and analysis on hazards of residential lead exposure for children exposed to deteriorating lead-based paint, lead contaminated dust, and lead contaminated residential soil. EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
- Child Lead Poisoning and the Lead Industry - Provides a history of child lead poisoning in the U.S. and the role of the lead paint industry.
- Automated Marketing Technologies - Offers a marketing lead system and internet web site advertising system that automatically generates mortgage leads, insurance leads, real estate leads, and mlm leads.
- CDC Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - About lead poisoning and U.S. government efforts to protect children from lead exposure. From the National Center for Environmental Health of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
- The LEAD Group Inc - Organization aiming to eliminate childhood and foetal lead poisoning in Australia by the year 2012 and to protect the environment from lead. Includes fact sheets, news articles, and other resources.
- Keep Kids Healthy Guide to Lead Poisoning - Includes a lead screening quiz, discussion of risk factors, preventing exposure, and treatment options. Intended primarily for parents.
- Living Safely With Lead - Australian Lead Reference Centre for lead, health and the environment.
- Abotex Enterprises Ltd. - Provides facts about lead poisoning and reducing lead intake. Offers lead test kit - Lead Inspector.
- Lead Toxicity - Lead may cause irreversible neurologic damage, renal disease, cardiovascular effects, and reproductive toxicity. Blood lead levels once considered safe are now considered hazardous, with no known threshold.
- Multnomah County Health Department Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - Provides description of Oregon county community based services to those at risk for lead poisoning.
Wikipedia Articles
- Lead castle - A lead castle, also called a lead cave or a lead housing, is a structure composed of bricks made of lead. Lead castles are a type of lead shielding and are used to enclose small radioactive sources.
- Lead paint - Lead paint is paint containing lead, a heavy metal, that is used as pigment, with Lead(II) chromate (PbCrO4, "chrome yellow") and lead(II) carbonate(PbCO3, "white lead") being the most common. Lead is also added to paint to speed drying, increase durability, retain a fresh appearance, and resist moisture which causes corrosion.
- Lead programmer - A lead programmer is a software engineer in charge of one or more software projects. Alternative titles include Development Lead, Technical Lead, Senior Software Engineer, Software Design Engineer Lead (SDE Lead), Software Manager, or Senior Applications Developer.
- Lead dioxide - Lead (IV) oxide, PbO2, also plumbic oxide and lead dioxide, is an oxide of lead, with lead in oxidation state +4. It has a molar mass of 239.
- Lead crystal - Lead crystal, (also called crystal), is lead glass that has been hand or machine cut with facets. Lead oxide added to the molten glass gives lead crystal a much higher index of refraction than normal glass, and consequently much greater "sparkle".