Getting the Lead Out

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Uploaded by on Feb 20, 2009

Mining is just the beginning of the process of lead. On Discovery Channel's "HowStuffWorks" show, we visit a lead mill to see how lead is extracted from the host rock.

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  • Theres no meat in walnuts

  • @TheBrad499 and thumbs douwn

  • what happens to the chemicals that are not saved. Do they discharge them into the mississippi river so others can drink them down river?

  • go read up... lead sulfide isn't readily absorbed into the blood stream... its highly insoluble...

  • It's called froth floatation process alot of mines use it to separate minerals out of the ore...the lead sulfide only floats if it is of a sufficiently small size particle. You don't see particles the size of lead sinkers floating...

  • yep pmsl

  • did you watch the rest? they add chemicals and that helps it float

  • 0:12 "Lead Is Heavy, But It Floats ??? then what the fuck are my fishing sinkers mage of ??

  • ITS OVER

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