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Pb

noun
1.
A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey.  Synonyms: atomic number 82, lead.
2.
A unit of information equal to 1000 terabits or 10^15 bits.  Synonyms: Pbit, petabit.
3.
A unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes.  Synonym: petabyte.
4.
A unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes.  Synonyms: pebibyte, petabyte, PiB.





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... of electricity enters the battery, the Pb3O4 on the positive plate is reduced to Pb, and the oxygen so set free attacks the Pb3O4 on the negative plate, and oxidizes it to PbO2. In this chemical action, caloric is occluded in the Pb and unlocked in the PbO2, but a much greater amount of caloric is locked up than is unlocked, although ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 • Various


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