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by whiw 337 days ago
I am not a chemist, so take this with a pinch of salt: wouldn't lead chromate + sodium bicarbonate make lead carbonate, a white precipitate? Sodium bicarbonate is likely in your kitchen cupboard already.
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Pretty hard to see precipitated dust at concentrations in the ppm range.
Not a chemist either but lead oxide is actually more soluble in water than lead chromate, so a double replacement reaction won't favor lead chromate -> lead oxide.
WP tells me lead chromate's solubility in water is 0.00001720 g/100 mL, so, no, it won't.
I meant lead carbonate, not lead oxide.