Lead

Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cut, lead is silvery with a hint of blue; it tarnishes to a dull gray color when exposed to air. Lead has the highest atomic number of any stable element and three of its isotopes are endpoints of major nuclear decay chains of heavier elements. Lead is a relatively unreactive post-transition metal. Its weak metallic character …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …

and formalised reporting and detection systems lead to a parroting of official or schematic language


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 November 2024 English

Andy Weaver led a life of quiet contemplation before becoming a father at the age of 42. Within three years he had two sons; two small, relentless disruptions to an …

how sometimes it refuses our songs and, like lead in alchemy, love confuses our desire to reimagine


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 14 November 2024 English

This study aims to highlight the key supply chain barriers in localizing electric vehicle (EV) battery cell manufacturing in India. It summarizes consultations with 12 companies working on battery cell …

shortages on India’s cell manufacturing ambitions also lead to other challenges, including 1. Increased safety component operations, a shortage of skilled workers can lead to higher safety hazards, such as accidents and Missed innovation opportunities: Skill gaps can lead to missed opportunities for innovation and growth OEMs and battery producers. However, it could also lead to new opportunities for India since industrialized analysis found that for battery-specific equipment, lead times of 1.5 years from ordering to commissioning


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1829) both introduced and epitomized the great philosophical controversies of his age. His influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about …

religion. When at a loss with a clear theoretical lead, he had the ability to unearth what I strove to that the systems that modern philosophy produced lead to a complete annihilation of the “true” in exchange search for justification – if given free rein – would lead to an infinite regress or to an indefinite whole. in the de- velopment of Jacobi’s philosophy may lead the reader to forget the importance of the organic independently of the subject that finds it, may lead to a dangerous illusion: it may transform a scientific


DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English

This book tells the personal story of his life as a leading Indigenous figure, taking the reader inside some of Canada’s biggest crises and challenges.

clarity and command that others would want him to lead. Georges could bridge the big and small, the soft I loved to play with our dogs and rode my dad’s lead dog, Rover, like a horse. He was very strong and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the …

The focus is not on leading political and business figures of the period, although they feature in the narrative, but on The pedestrian will find his nearest way from the Station to Bromley is by way of a pleasant footpath (in dry weather) leading


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

(OCT) was serving as the program officer and staff lead for the accreditation of an Indigenous language colonialism in the academy. Inevitably, these reflections lead to other questions: What is colonial- ism? How does


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …

conducted much of the research on lobbying, shared the lead on bureau-shaping analysis, and co-authored chapter measures enforced – and sometimes they were not, lead- ing to major outbreaks at workplaces such as a


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …

this internal strife had far-reaching consequences, lead- ing to the division of the Zīrid dynasty into two


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

imprisoned political activists – from antiapartheid lead- ers to suffragettes. To anonymize the subjects engage in treatment of offenders … assisting them to lead a “good and useful life.”’107 The 1960s and the


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