Lead is element 82, a post-transition of the p block, in group 14, period 6. Its ground-state configuration is [Xe] 4f14 5d10 6s2 6p2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2, 4.
Lead has been known since antiquity, so no discovery is credited for it.
Name origin: English word (plumbum in Latin).
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