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To: pabianice
Metallic lead in a bullet in the ground is mostly inert, otherwise old battlegrounds (most of Europe and large tracts of north America) would be unfit for human habitation.

11 posted on 03/16/2012 7:10:58 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: BitWielder1

Not to forget it was used as weight in all the old wooden ships.


13 posted on 03/16/2012 7:14:53 AM PDT by org.whodat
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