41. In 1823, a local businessman had established a manufactory for white lead in the emerging city of Brooklyn. 42. MUSIC-GREAT-WHITE ( Houston ) _ Great White lead singer Jack Russell could have become a self-destructive rock-star cliche. 43. They also do not perform well with heavy paints, especially the formerly widely used white lead based paints. 44. White lead ore was used in the 19th and 20th centuries in the mixture to help it dry.45. Following this, white lead continued to be added to some paint available to professional decorators for specialist use. 46. Like white lead , it is injured if exposed to acids or impure air, which cause discoloration and decay. 47. In 200 B . C ., ancient Greek women applied white lead powder and chalk to lighten their skin. 48. White lead when cooked into linseed oil acts as a drying agent, accelerating the polymerization of the oil film.49. De Winter catalogued 115 white lead pastiglia caskets, only 10 of which were over 20 cm high or deep. 50. The compound known as white lead was apparently prepared as a decorative pigment at least as early as 200 BCE.
