Lead acetate was banned in cosmetics by Health Canada in 2005 ( effective at the end of 2006 ) based on tests showing possible carcinogenicity and reproductive toxicity.
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Grape syrup was made in ancient Rome and was a source of lead poisoning because it was boiled using lead pots, in order to take on the sweetness of lead acetate.
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Lead acetate adds a pleasant sweet taste to food but causes lead poisoning _ an ailment that is often fatal and, even in mild cases, causes debilitation and loss of cognitive ability.
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The solution is agitated by the bubbling action of the hydrogen peroxide, and the main reaction is the dissolution of lead deposits within the suppressor by the acetic acid, which forms lead acetate.
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The Romans boiled down grape must in lead pots to make a delicious syrup, which was sweetened not only by natural grape sugar but also by the lead acetate from the pots slowly dissolving.
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Some historians believed Jackson's frequent ingestion of calomel ( mercurous chloride ) and sugar of lead ( lead acetate ) _ medicines he took for intestinal ailments _ caused the symptoms and led to his death.
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Platinization is often conducted from water solution of 0.072 mol / kg of chloroplatinic acid and 0.00013 mol / kg of lead acetate, at a current density of 30 mA / cm 2 for up to 10 minutes.
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Geochemist Jerome Nriagu published an article in the " New England Journal of Medicine " in 1983 hypothesizing that defrutum and sapa may have contained enough leached lead acetate to be of danger to those who consumed it regularly.
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Although the use of lead ( II ) acetate as a sweetener was already illegal at that time, composer Ludwig van Beethoven may have died of lead poisoning caused by wines adulterated with lead acetate ( see also " Beethoven's liver " ).
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One notable example is the possible significant lead exposure during the Roman Empire resulting from the development of extensive plumbing networks and the habit of boiling vinegared wine in lead pans to sweeten it, the process generating lead acetate, known as " sugar of lead ".
