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?
The screams of children created a sort of sonic frequency that galvanised it to the wall.
This makes sense to me
something about durability and drying agent something and to increase the success rate of catching cancer.
That doesnt make sense except the cancer part
bingo
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 🤪
I also ate the paint
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.
That was a good sales pitch too. Like in the 80's right?
I think you mean “lead”
I know 😣 it’s a stoner scramble brain thing that happens to me sometimes
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.
This was too helpful of an answer 🤭🫂
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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Lead good for buildy buildy, I think I got it 🤓
I think they must have mixed it with superglue. I was thinking maybe magnets but then I remembered leader isn't magnetic.
They would just bend it into the walls. It's very easy application
This is blowing my mind
Damnit I’m high. It’s “lead” not led 😂
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.
Interesting
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?
It made the paint taste gud
That’s what I’m really upset about. My paint doesn’t taste as good anymore
They used to put lead in paint to make it last longer and look shinier, even though it was heavy.
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.
Imagine wearing heavy makeup 😅
Kids eat paint?
Almost exclusively
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....
Probably to make it easier to store and transfer
Yeah but it’s heavy so why no fall off walls?
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
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.
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.