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prettygoodwordlitharge - n., a yellow lead oxide (PbO), used in storage batteries, the manufacture of lead glass, and as a pigment.
It is sometimes used as a synonym for white lead, but that's a different substance from lead monoxide. Sometimes created as a byproduct of separating silver from lead (when it's sometimes called "litharge of silver"), whence its name: from Middle English litarge, from Anglo-French, from Old French alteration of litargire, from Latin lithargyrus, from Greek litharguros, from lithos, stone + arguros, silver. I like how the th goes to t then back to th.
---L.
It is sometimes used as a synonym for white lead, but that's a different substance from lead monoxide. Sometimes created as a byproduct of separating silver from lead (when it's sometimes called "litharge of silver"), whence its name: from Middle English litarge, from Anglo-French, from Old French alteration of litargire, from Latin lithargyrus, from Greek litharguros, from lithos, stone + arguros, silver. I like how the th goes to t then back to th.
---L.
