lead wool meaning

• [Architecture]
  

  A wool-like material of fine strands of lead; sometimes used as caulking in pipe joints.

  

  lead wool applied as caulking

• The Lead Wool Company ( the British company ) was incorporated on 9 October 1919 ( although some references indicate that it was active before that date ) and was still active in 1983.
• The use of lead wool radiation shielding and heat-sealed plastics for contamination control in commercial nuclear power plants took a dramatic upswing in 1979 as a result of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.

• "lead wool" meaning in Chinese: [yarn] 【建筑】(接铅管用的)铅毛。
• "lead wool" meaning in Japanese: 鉛綿、繊維状鉛
• "lead wool" meaning in Russian: свинцовая вата