Litharge
the yellow or reddish protoxide of lead partially fused (PbO). LITHARGE, the yellow or reddish It is extensively used in the manufacture of glass, of enamels, of artificial gems, of lead, plaster and lead soap, of sugar of lead, white and red lead, and other compounds. compounds. lithium. Carbonate of lithia acts as a powerful diuretic, which may be given gravel, and renal calculus. It may be lithia is also lithontriptic. These salts, being solvents for uric-acid calculi, alter the quality of the urine, and prevent the crystallization and deposit of the substances forming gravel and calculi. stances forming gravel and calculi. nated with chloride of lithium, as at Baden Baden. They are useful in gout. nated with chloride of lithium, as at a monatomic element of the alkali group of metals. It is very widely distributed through the mineral kingdom. It can be The metal has a white color, and fuses it is left behind, with its original appearity of only 0.5936. Like potassium and