Lead Pb

Atomic Number: 82
Atomic Mass: 207.2
Half-life: 27 mins to 53,000 years

Source:

• Lead paint, hobbies (sculpting, stained glass), leaded gas, cigarette smoke, foods, water from lead pipes, solder iron/steel/battery production, hair colorants, old toys.

Adverse Effects:

• Stores in bones, liver, kidney, brain
• Better absorbed by children's gastrointestinal tract
• Childhood lead encephalopathy
• Neurotoxicity: peripheral and central
• Nephrotoxicity
• Joint pain
• Cardiac dysrythmia
• Anemia
• Hypertension
• Oligospermia, testicular pain