• Shona word mutobvo in the Shona Dictionary
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mutobvo
/mutóɓ͡ʋ̤ó/

• noun , class(3)
• synonyms: chumbu
• variant: mutobvu
• dialects/origins: Standard Shona

English translation

lead

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.