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(The Romans called tin plumbum album — white lead.)
The Latin plumbum weight gives us the symbol, Pb (along with words like plumb, plumb bob , and plumber one who works with lead and lead pipes.
Thus the sign for iron became Fe (from Latin ferrum ), for gold, Au ( aurum ), for silver, Ag ( argentum ), for copper Cu (cuprum) , for lead, Pb ( plumbum —until steel replaced lead pipe for waterworks, plumbers were, and had been since Roman times, workers in lead).