WHITE LEAD, _Carbonate of lead, or Ceruse_. (_Blanc de plomb_, Fr.;
_Bleiweiss_, Germ.) This preparation is the only one in general use for
painting wood and the plaster walls of apartments white. It mixes well
with oil, without having its bright colour impaired, spreads easily
under the brush, and gives a uniform coat to wood, stone, metal, &c. It
is employed either alone, or with other pigments, to serve as their
basis, and to give them body. This article has been long manufactured
with much success at Klagenfurth in Carinthia, and its mode of
preparation has been lately described with precision by Marcel de
Serres. The great white-lead establishments at Krems, whence, though
incorrectly, the terms _white of Kremnitz_ became current on the
continent, have been abandoned.