Although most authorities agree in translating plumbum album or plumbum candidum as "tin" (which is unquestionably the meaning in such examples as Pliny's Nat.
Pliny treats of these two metals as plumbum nigrum and plumbum album respectively, which seems to show that at his time they were looked upon as being only two varieties of the same species.
It is by no means certain that this is tin, for usually tin is given as plumbum candidum.
The Roman term was plumbum candidum, and as a result of Agricola's insistence on using it and stannum in what he conceived was their original sense, he managed to give considerable confusion to mineralogic literature for a century or two.
Plumbum candidum is whiter and plumbum nigrum is darker, as you see.
Agricola himself coined the term plumbum cinereum for bismuth, no doubt following the Roman term for tin--plumbum candidum.
It was distinguished among the Romans by the name of plumbum nigrum.
If the Acid of Sea-salt be mixed therewith, the precipitate will be a Plumbum corneum; that is, a Metallic Salt resembling the Luna cornea.
This Plumbum corneum dissolved in water is again precipitated by the Vitriolic Acid.
This precipitate is extremely like the precipitate of Silver made in the same manner, and that being called Luna cornea hath occasioned this to be named Plumbum corneum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plumbum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
