The Collaborative International Dictionary
PbO
massicot \mas"si*cot\, n. [F. massicot; E. masticot is a corruption.] (Chem.) Lead monoxide (also called Lead protoxide), PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment. It is also called lead oxide yellow, as opposed to red lead, which is lead tetroxide Pb3O4.
Note: Massicot is sometimes used by painters, and also as a drier in the composition of ointments and plasters.
Wikipedia
PBO
PBO may refer to:
- Lead(II) oxide (PbO)
- Paraburdoo Airport, Paraburdoo, Australia (IATA airport code: PBO)
- Parliamentary Budget Officer
- Peterborough railway station (National Rail code: PBO)
- Pine Bluff Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Wisconsin, USA
- Pinoy Box Office, a Filipino cable channel
- Piperonyl butoxide, a pesticide synergist
- Plate Boundary Observatory, a geodetic observatory in the western United States
- Portland Bird Observatory, a wildlife observatory on the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, UK
- President Barack Obama, current president of the United States
- Push Button Objects, a producer of experimental hip-hop
- Projected benefit obligation, a specially defined pension obligation under US-GAAP
- Public Benefit Organization, a type of charity or non-profit organization
- Zylon, or Polybenzobisoxazole, a polymer
- Packed Bohemia Object, a data file used in the war games developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio
- Paperback original, a book originally published as paperback
- Pin Bones Out, a type of fish fillet