jakdedert wrote:

Actually, it's been posited that the use of lead plumbing was one of the
causes of the decline of the Roman Empire. That's just a story I've
heard, and upon what I based my opinion. The truth of it, and the
chemical reaction involved is beyond my experience.

jak


It wasn't lead pipes, it was 'Lead Acetate', a toxic sweetener made
from lead:

http://www.google.com/search?q=sugar+of+lead&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GWYA


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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida