Lead

Lead
Properties
Type	Element
Made With/By	Mining
Default Ore Veins per Chunk	6
Ore Vein Size	9
Minimum Ore Height	5
Maximum Ore Height	35
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	82

For the radioactive isotope, see: Lead-209.

Lead is a soft, silvery-grey (slightly blue), and toxic metal. It is fairly common and spawns at medium depths. Lead isn't particularly useful overall, but it does have specialized uses. Primarily used for radiation protection in hazmat suits, ammunition and solder.

Production

Lead can be made by processing the ore itself, or as a byproduct of electrolyzing gold, beryllium, or copper crystals. It may also be obtained from asteroid mining ships which give it as a common drop (5.2% chance). In addition, Lead can also be obtained by processing poisonous mud in a gas centrifuge, and it is a common decay product from many reactor and RTG fuels.

Uses

Lead is mainly used in hazmat suits and other forms of radiation protection, as well as in soldering and ammunition. It also has uses for several reactors, as it can be liquefied and used as coolant in both the PWR and ICF, and Lead plates are a primary ingredient in crafting a PWR.

Industrial Liquefaction Machine
100mB

Lead is also used to synthesize tetraethyllead, an antiknock agent that increases the flammability of a couple fuels, at the cost of heavy metal pollution.

**Chemical Plant**
100mB 1,000mB

Trivia

It can be used to make lead apples, which simply poison the player depending on tier, with the Epic Lead Apple killing the consumer instantly.
It is one of the two metal-based reactor coolants, liquid lead and liquid sodium.