它与我们面临的其他似乎永远存在的健康恐慌相比如何，比如人们在合成运动场上对铅的恐慌？
How does it compare with the other, seemingly perpetual health scares we confront, like panic over lead in synthetic athletic fields?
当秃鹰吃下其他体内含铅的动物尸体时，会吸收大量的铅。
When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead.
不是发现过银和铅的混生矿吗？
儿童对于铅的神经毒性影响特别脆弱。
Children are particularly vulnerable to the neurotoxic effects of lead.
这块铅的质量不会因为融化而改变。
一项研究表明，自来水占人体所接触到的铅的20%。
In one study, tap water accounted for up to 20 percent of human exposure to lead.
有时从旧管道流出来的饮水中也能发现铅的存在。
It's also sometimes found in drinking water after it flakes off from old pipes.
19世纪时铜的产量非常大，黄金、铁矿石、锌和铅的产量紧随其后。
Copper production was big in the 1800s. Gold, iron ore, zinc and lead followed.
1920年：制造商和零售珠宝商尝试制造男式订婚戒指，但是这个想法却像灌了铅的气球一样很快销声匿迹。
1920s: Manufacturers and retail jewelers try to launch the concept of men's engagement rings, which sinks like a lead balloon.
锇：是一种密度大的自然元素——其密度是铅的两倍——这种蓝灰色的金属在需要硬度和稳定性的应用领域大放异彩。
Osmium (Os) : The densest of natural elements-twice as dense as lead-this blue-grey metal finds a home in applications where hardness and durability are essential.
今年，镍和铅的可用库存量均已降至非常低的水平，这意味着，如果供应出现任何可能的中断，都可能对价格造成放大效应。
Both nickel and lead have seen available stocks shrink to critically low levels this year and this means that any possible disruption to supplies has had an amplified effect on prices.
在1912年夏天，HarryHoudini被拷在手铐和脚镣中，塞进一个灌铅的小木箱，然后从一艘拖船上被扔进纽约的东河中。
In THE summer of 1912 Harry Houdini was clapped in manacles and leg-irons, stuffed into a crate that had been weighed down by lead, and dropped from a tugboat into New York's East River.
在没有施加外力影响的情况下，铅的危害并不大。但是CELA解释说：“比如，在更新旧的窗户或者钻进墙壁中嵌入绝缘材料的时候，可能使房间受到铅尘的污染。”
The lead poses little threat if undisturbed but "replacing old windows or drilling into walls to blow in insulation, for example, can contaminate the house with lead dust," CELA said.
如果你的房子曾经刷过含铅的油漆，并且漆层还比较好，最好的方法是用新的不含铅的油漆覆盖旧的漆层，而不是去除老的含铅的漆层，因为这样做，铅尘反而排放到空气当中了。
If your old house has lead paint in good condition, cover it with fresh paint rather than removing it, which releases lead dust into the air.
可后来我偶然学到了一点知识：涂料中所含的铅有让色彩更艳丽、使油漆更耐用的作用，特别是红色及黄色涂料；而由于含铅涂料要比其他代用涂料便宜，因此，便宜的玩具含铅的可能性更高。
But then I happened to read that lead in paint makes colors (particularly yellow and red) brighter and last longer; because lead costs less than alternates, cheaper toys are more likely to contain it.
通缩则相反，它会加重债务负担，感觉就像盖着灌了铅的被子一般透不过气来。
Deflation, on the other hand, increases debt, and feels like being smothered by a lead blanket.
几个世纪以来，科学家都在尝试将基本金属变为贵金属，最常见的是铅变成黄金——甚至现代科学之父艾萨克·牛顿也是一个炼金术士。
For centuries, scientists have tried to turn base metals into precious ones, most commonly lead into gold — even Isaac Newton, the father of modern science, was an alchemist.
‘不，’我回答说，‘除了这枚铅戒指，其他的我分毫不取，因我知晓内里写了什么，也知晓它的功用。’
"' Nay," I answered, "but I will take nought but that leaden ring, for I know what is written within it, and for what purpose."
国王要求一位名叫约翰·弗里德里希·伯特格的德国炼金术士用铅来炼金。
A German alchemist called Johann Friedrich Bottger was asked by the king to make gold out of lead.
这些渔网是靠铅坠下沉的。
原来白色的铅颜料已经氧化发黑了。
The original white lead pigments have oxidized and turned black.
工业废料更有害，因为其中有许多毒性很强的材料，如铜和铅。
Industrial waste is even more harmful since there are many highly poisonous materials in it, such as copper and lead.
特殊的铅围裙用于进一步减少暴露。
螯合疗法对于持续暴露在铅环境的儿童不产生治疗效果，而可能加重中毒现象。
Chelation therapy in children who continue to be exposed to lead is ineffective and may exacerbate toxicity.
一些进口的草药也含有铅。
如果您怀疑您的管道含铅，在每次使用水之前先让自来水流30秒。
If you suspect there's lead in your pipes, allow the tap to run for 30 seconds to clear them before using water.
如果您怀疑您的管道含铅，在每次使用水之前先让自来水流30秒。
If you suspect there's lead in your pipes, allow the tap to run for 30 seconds to clear them before using water.
应用推荐