It's heavy and cheap. It's also soft enough that you can pinch it around the line easily. When I was a kid, you got split-shot sinkers and attached them to the line by putting the sinker in the split then biting it--yes, with your teeth. We were all a little dumber then.
Pb
Lead can be written as Pb when be used for scientific purposes. The letters Pb are derived from its Latin name Plumbum.
Tire Weights, Fishing Weights, pencils
Pb , derived from Plumbum.
Plumbing (as is evident from the symbol for lead, Pb, which is plumbum)
The chemical name is lead. The symbol for the element lead is Pb, for plumbum, which comes from Latin for lead.
Symbol: Pb make sure you so capital P and lower case b
well sika is a lead(Pb). it is used in batteries.
Pb comes from the Latin word plumbum, and it's the chemical symbol for lead.
The chemical symbol Pb stands for "lead", Plum bum.
Because the Latin name for lead is plumbum,
Pb comes from the Latin word for lead, "plumbum"