lead acetate

1. 1.

   a poisonous white solid (Pb[CH3CO]2) used in dyeing cotton and in making enamels and varnishes

   Synonymssugar of lead

   Broaderacetatedye

Questions about lead acetate

What does lead acetate mean?

lead acetate means "a poisonous white solid (Pb[CH3CO]2) used in dyeing cotton and in making enamels and varnishes".

What is another word for lead acetate?

Close synonyms include sugar of lead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lead acetate a common word?

lead acetate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.