Period 6 element "The Poisoner's Poison" and "Inheritance Powder" (alongside arsenic). Lead is a main-group element in the carbon group with the symbol Pb (from ) and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable other metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed to air. Lead has a shiny chrome-silver luster when it is melted into a liquid. Lead is used in building construction, lead-acid batteries, bullets and shots, weights, as part of solders, pewters, fusible alloys and
The Soft Bulletin years removed, "The Soft Bulletin" is still an undeniably essential listen that belongs in every record collection." Since late 2010, the album has been sporadically performed live in its entirety over the years, and on May 26, 2016, an orchestra was used to embellish sounds of the album while the band played their main instruments for the album at the concert. As of 2002 it has sold 100,000 units in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. Upon its release, "The Soft Bulletin" was subject to record company demands for commercial-sounding music, hence the inclusion of remixes of several songs. In