Pb is the chemical symbol for the chemical element
lead
Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cu ...
. PB, P.B., or Pb may also refer to:ML
Arts and entertainment
Music
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Paul's Boutique,'' a 1989 album by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys
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Prussian Blue
Prussian blue (also known as Berlin blue, Brandenburg blue or, in painting, Parisian or Paris blue) is a dark blue pigment produced by oxidation of ferrous ferrocyanide salts. It has the chemical formula Fe CN)">Cyanide.html" ;"title="e(Cyanid ...
, an American white nationalist pop pre-teen duo
Publications
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''Performance Bikes'' (magazine), a monthly British motorcycling magazine
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Playboy
''Playboy'' is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother.
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'', an American men's magazine
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Post-Bulletin'', an American daily newspaper based in Rochester, Minnesota
Television
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Princess Bubblegum
Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (also called Bonnie or PB, occasionally P-bubs) is a fictional character in the American animated television series ''Adventure Time'', created by Pendleton Ward. She is voiced by Hynden Walch.
Princess Bubblegum rules ...
, a character from the 2010 animated TV series ''Adventure Time''
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Prison Break
''Prison Break'' is an American serial (radio and television), serial drama television show, television series created by Paul Scheuring for Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. The series revolves around two brothers, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purce ...
'', an American drama television series which originally ran from 2005 to 2009
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Puppy Bowl'', an American special based on the Super Bowl airing each year on Animal Planet since 2005
Anime-Manga
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Phantom Blood
is a 1987 manga series created by Hirohiko Araki, and the first part of the larger ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' series. The manga was originally serialized by Shueisha in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' under the title and was collected in five ...
'', the first story arc of ''shōnen'' manga series ''
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure''
Companies and organizations
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Packard Bell Corporation, an American radio manufacturer formed in 1933 that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics
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Packard Bell, a Dutch computer manufacturer which took its name from the earlier American company
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Palladium Books
Palladium Books is a publisher of role-playing games (RPGs) perhaps best known for its popular, expansive '' Rifts'' series (1990–present). Palladium was founded April 1981 in Detroit, Michigan by current president and lead game designer Kevin ...
, a publisher of role-playing games
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Panera Bread, a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada
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Parsons Brinckerhoff, an American professional services firm, now a part of WSP
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PBair
PBair was an airline with its head office in the UBC II Building in Vadhana, Bangkok, Thailand. It operated scheduled domestic and international services. Its main base was Suvarnabhumi Airport. It ceased all operations in December 2009.
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, a now-defunct Thai airline
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Photobucket, an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website
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Piranha Bytes
Piranha Bytes GmbH is a German video game developer based in Essen. Founded in 1997, it is best known for their ''Gothic'' and '' Risen'' series of role-playing video games. The studio is a subsidiary of THQ Nordic and, as of August 2021, empl ...
, a German video game developer
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Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay (sometimes abbreviated as TPB) is an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software. Founded in 2003 by Swedish think tank Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay allows visitors to search, download, and contribute mag ...
, a file-sharing organization
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Pitney Bowes, an American manufacturer of software and hardware and a provider of services related to documents, packaging, mailing, and shipping
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PocketBook International, a producer of e-book readers under the PocketBook brand
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Pottery Barn
Pottery Barn is an American upscale home furnishing store chain and e-commerce company, with retail stores in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia. Pottery Barn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
The company is headq ...
, an American-based home furnishing retail store chain
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ProBoards
ProBoards is a free, remotely hosted message board service that facilitates online discussions by allowing people to create their own online communities.
Ownership and service statistics
ProBoards was founded and is owned by Patrick Clinger, wh ...
, an online message board service
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Prosperity Party
The Prosperity Party ( am, ብልጽግና ፓርቲ, Bilits’igina Paritī; om, Paartii Badhaadhiinaa) is a political party in Ethiopia that was established on 1 December 2019 as a successor to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic F ...
(''Paartii Badhaadhiinaa''), a political party in Ethiopia
Economics and finance
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Payback period, in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment
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Performance bond
A performance bond, also known as a contract bond, is a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor. The term is also used to denote a collateral deposit of good faith mon ...
, a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor
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Premium Bond, a lottery bond issued by the United Kingdom government's National Savings and Investments scheme
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Price-to-book ratio The price-to-book ratio, or P/B ratio, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's current market value to its book value (where ''book value'' is the value of all assets minus liabilities owned by a company). The calculation can be performed i ...
, a financial ratio used to compare a company's book value to its current market price
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Participatory budgeting
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a type of citizen sourcing in which ordinary people decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget through a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making. Participatory budgeting allows ci ...
, a process of democratic deliberation to allocate parts of a public budget
Education
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Brunei Polytechnic, a post-secondary institution in Brunei
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Philosophy and Belief
Philosophy and Belief is a school subject taught at schools across South America. The subject bears many similarities to Religious Education (RE), a subject taught across the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Countries. Its main differences ...
, a school subject
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Project Blogger
Project Blogger is an educational initiative in Ireland by Discover Science & Engineering (DSE). It provides blogging tools and an online space for secondary school students and their teachers to create blogs about their school science experiments ...
, an Irish educational initiative
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Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages
People
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Panda Bear (musician) (born 1978), an experimental American musician and founding member of Animal Collective
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Chris Pontius
Chris Pontius (born July 16, 1974) is an American stunt performer and television personality. He is best known as a cast member of the reality comedy show '' Jackass'' and co-host of its spinoff ''Wildboyz'' with fellow cast member Steve-O.
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(born 1974), an American entertainer and daredevil nicknamed "Party Boy"
Places
United States
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Pacific Beach, San Diego, California
Pacific Beach is a neighborhood in San Diego, bounded by La Jolla to the north, Mission Beach and Mission Bay to the south, Interstate 5 to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. While formerly largely populated by young people, surfers ...
a neighborhood in San Diego, California
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Palm Bay, Florida
Palm Bay is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The city's population was 119,760 at th2020 United States Census making it the most populous city in the county and the largest by land mass. The historic section of the city lies on the ...
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Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida. Located on a barrier island in east-central Palm Beach County, the town is separated from several nearby cities including West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach by the Intracoas ...
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Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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Pismo Beach, California
Pismo Beach (Chumash: ''Pismuʔ'') is a city in the southern portion of San Luis Obispo County, in the Central Coast area of California, United States. The estimated population was 8,072 at the 2020 census, up from 7,655 in the 2010 census. It ...
Other countries
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Paraíba
Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...
, a state of Brazil
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Port Blair
Port Blair () is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division (''tehsil'') of the islands, the headquarters for the district of South And ...
, a town in the Andaman Islands
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Punjab (disambiguation), the name of several locations in South Asia
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Paderborn
Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...
, town in Germany, known by its
vehicle registration code PB
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Považská Bystrica
Považská Bystrica (; german: Waagbistritz; hu, Vágbeszterce) is a town in northwestern Slovakia. It is located on the Váh river, around 30 km from the city of Žilina. It belongs to Upper Váh region of tourism.
Profile
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, town in Slovakia, known by its
vehicle registration code PB
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CIA cryptonym for Guatemala.
Science and technology
Chemistry
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cu ...
, symbol Pb, a chemical element
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Polybutylene
Polybutylene (polybutene-1, poly(1-butene), PB-1) is a polyolefin or saturated polymer with the chemical formula (CH2CH(Et))n. Not be confused with polybutene, PB-1 is mainly used in piping.
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Polybutylene is produced by polymerisation ...
, a polymer of the substance butylene
Computing and software
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Petabit (Pb), a unit of information equivalent to 1000
terabits
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented a ...
used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
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Petabyte (PB), a unit of information equivalent to 1000
terabytes which is used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
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PowerBook
The PowerBook (known as Macintosh PowerBook before 1997) is a family of Macintosh laptop computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from 1991 to 2006. During its lifetime, the PowerBook went through several major revisions and r ...
, a line of laptop computers produced by Apple
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PowerBuilder, an integrated software development environment
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PunkBuster
PunkBuster is a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games. It does this by scanning the memory contents of the local machine. A computer identified as using cheats may be banned from connecting to pro ...
, a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games
Medicine
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Peripheral blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in the c ...
, deoxygenated blood in the circulatory system
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Phenobarbital, a barbiturate
Other uses in science and technology
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PB (pistol)
The PB (russian: Пистолет бесшумный , translit= Pistolet besshumnyy, lit= Pistol Silent, English: Silent Pistol; GRAU index 6P9) is a Soviet integrally suppressed semi-automatic pistol developed and manufactured by the Izhevsk M ...
, a Soviet silenced pistol intended for army reconnaissance groups and the KGB
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Picobarn
A barn (symbol: b) is a metric unit of area equal to (100 fm2). Originally used in nuclear physics for expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear reactions, today it is also used in all fields of high-energy physics to expr ...
, one trillionth of a barn, a unit of area used in physics
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Pipe bomb, an improvised explosive device consisting of a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material
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Push button
A push-button (also spelled pushbutton) or simply button is a simple switch mechanism to control some aspect of a machine or a process. Buttons are typically made out of hard material, usually plastic or metal. The surface is usually flat or sh ...
, a momentary button that is activated only while pressed by user
Sports
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Personal Best A personal record or personal best (abbreviated to PR or PB) is an individual's best performance in a given sporting discipline. It is most commonly found in athletic sports, such as track and field, other forms of running, swimming and weightlift ...
, the best time or score ever achieved by an athlete in a particular event.
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Paintball, a sport in which players tag opponents by firing dye capsules from a paintball gun
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Passed ball
In baseball, a catcher is charged with a passed ball when he fails to hold or control a legally pitched ball that, with ordinary effort, should have been maintained under his control, and, as a result of this loss of control, the batter or a ru ...
, in baseball
Transportation
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Patrol boat, a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defense duties
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Pilatus Railway
The Pilatus Railway (german: Pilatusbahn, links=no, PB) is a mountain railway in Switzerland and the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. The line runs from Alpnachstad, on Lake Alpna ...
or Pilatusbahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
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Irizar PB
The Irizar PB is a coach body manufactured by the Irizar Group from 2001 to 2015. It was built upon of the wide range of chassis. It was designed by Arup Design Research in the UK. Its revolutionary styling and features led to the variant wi ...
, a bus coach body
Other uses
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Paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with adhesive, glue rather than stitch (textile arts), stitches or Staple (fastener), staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) book ...
, a type of book
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Peanut butter
Peanut butter is a food paste or spread made from ground, dry-roasted peanuts. It commonly contains additional ingredients that modify the taste or texture, such as salt, sweeteners, or emulsifiers. Peanut butter is consumed in many countri ...
, a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanuts
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Powerball, an American lottery game
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Presiding Bishop, an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity
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Pro bono
( en, 'for the public good'), usually shortened to , is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment. In the United States, the term typically refers to provision of legal services by legal professionals for pe ...
, professional work undertaken voluntarily for little or no payment as a public service
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Plant Based, a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods
See also
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BP (disambiguation)
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