Pb is the chemical symbol for the chemical element
lead
Lead is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metals, heavy metal that is density, denser than most common materials. Lead is Mohs scale of mineral hardness#Intermediate ...
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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 Cyanide.html" ;"title="e(Cyanide">CN ...
, 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
The ''Post Bulletin'' is an American, English language newspaper and news website based in Rochester, MinnesotaPostbulletin.comprovides community coverage seven days a week with a print product two days a week: Tuesday and Saturday. The ''Post B ...
'', 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 drama television series created by Paul Scheuring for Fox. The series revolves around two brothers, Lincoln Burrows ( Dominic Purcell) and Michael Scofield ( Wentworth Miller); Burrows has been sentenc ...
'', 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'', 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
Packard Bell is a Dutch-registered computer manufacturing brand and subsidiary of Acer. Originally an American radio set manufacturer, Packard Bell Corporation, it was founded by Herbert A. Bell and Leon S. Packard in 1933. In 1986, Israeli in ...
, a Dutch computer manufacturer which took its name from the earlier American company
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Palladium Books, 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, 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, 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 ...
, a file-sharing organization
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Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes Inc. is an American technology company most known for its postage meters and other mailing equipment and services, and with expansions into e-commerce, software, and other technologies. The company was founded by Arthur Pitney, who ...
, 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, 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 (''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, 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 cit ...
, 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, 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 (born 1974), an American entertainer and daredevil nicknamed "Party Boy"
Places
United States
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Pacific Beach, San Diego, California a neighborhood in San Diego, California
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Palm Bay, Florida
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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 Intraco ...
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Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Pine Bluff is the eleventh-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock- North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combi ...
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Pismo Beach, California
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. Paraíb ...
, 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 A ...
, 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 th ...
, town in Germany, known by its
vehicle registration code PB
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Považská Bystrica, 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 (chemistry), symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metals, heavy metal that is density, denser than most common materials. Lead is Mohs scale of mineral hardness#Intermediate ...
, symbol Pb, a chemical element
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Polybutylene, a polymer of the substance butylene
Computing and software
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Petabit (Pb), a unit of information equivalent to 1000
terabits 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, 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 prot ...
, a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games
Medicine
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Peripheral blood, deoxygenated blood in the circulatory system
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Phenobarbital
Phenobarbital, also known as phenobarbitone or phenobarb, sold under the brand name Luminal among others, is a medication of the barbiturate type. It is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the treatment of certain types of ep ...
, a barbiturate
Other uses in science and technology
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PB (pistol), a Soviet silenced pistol intended for army reconnaissance groups and the KGB
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Picobarn, 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 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
Transportation
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Patrol boat
A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence, border security, or law enforcement. There are many designs for patrol boats, and th ...
, a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defense duties
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Pilatus Railway or Pilatusbahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
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Irizar PB, 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 glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, le ...
, 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, 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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