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Lead is a material that is very easy to reform, and it settles into a new crystal shape easily.

In this function it is used in seismic isolation systemsfor large buildings and bridges as an energy absorber. In one form, the lead forms a core at the middle of a set of sheets of rubber interwoven with steel sheets. This is the 'lead rubber bearing'. And a building may sit on perhaps 50 - 100 of these bearings.

An alternate form is the 'lead extrusion damper', roughly the same operation as a bike pump, but instead of air, it used lead as the plastic fluid which is pumped back and forth through a constriction. Both invented by Bill Robinson of Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

You're talking of a serious quantity of energy being dissipated in such a system. Hundreds of kW.

And simple cold working of lead is done with (wooden) hand tools for such asks as making flashing around where a chimney penetrates a roof.

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Cold working of lead is not possible because lead is a soft and low-melting metal. It lacks the strength and ductility required for cold working processes such as bending, stretching, or hammering. Lead tends to deform plastically rather than develop noticeable strain hardening when subjected to cold working, making it unsuitable for such operations.

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