The Basis for Compositional Bullet Lead Comparisons
Having tried batteries, years ago. Forget it. Not much lead in there.
The other elements are present in trace amounts and can vary from one product to another. Bullet leads analyzed from CCI, Federal, Remington, and Winchester have contained up to 0.42 percent arsenic, 6.8 percent antimony, 2.5 percent tin, 0.2 percent bismuth, 0.22 percent copper, 0.031 percent silver, and 0.011 percent cadmium. The wide ranges in concentrations of all of these elements within sources provide for thousands of distinguishable melts of bullet lead at any one time.
The composition of a molten pot of battery lead can change because of volatilization of selected elements, segregation during solidification, as well as other factors (Schmitt et al. 1989). However, in experimental studies of bullet lead ingots, no compositional variations have been observed.
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City of Vernon smelter Background
The input of the Vernon smelter is spent automotive batteries. Its output is purified lead for the manufacture of
new batteries; plastic for non-food uses and neutralized sulfuric acid from which fertilizers and other
commodities are manufactured. From start to finish, little is wasted. In between is a gritty manufacturing
operation that involves handling TOXIC and CORROSIVE materials.
Closed- Former Exide Facility at 2700 South Indiana Avenue, Vernon, CA.