Purity = supposedly pure, but sublimates indicate contamination. If this Lead is contaminated, then all the subsequent images that utilize this Lead will affect the true colors of sublimates. Later, I will get another Lead source that is supposed to be at least 999 pure. But, it's been my belief that metal purity is at best always iffy.
Image taken with 35mm camera, shutter speed = 1/250th of second in bright sun using 200 film. Note: All photographs were taken with a 135mm lens set at Macro to allow close-up focusing and all photos, except those by the ccd microscope camera were developed and then digitized by Kodak 1 hour commercial labs at a CVS pharmacy.

Image created with B&L SZ5 microscope @ 40 power, coupled to a ccd camera and computer.
Sublimate colors are a little different due to intense light source.
The cracks in plaster tablet are due to heat from propane torch.
The carved out depression is to help keep the metal in a confined area due to blast from applied torch flame.

Equal amounts of Lead and Bismuth
Image taken with 35mm camera, 135mm lens (Macro setting), shutter speed = 1/250th of second in bright sun using 200 film. Notice how the various colored sublimates are carried and deposited. Both Bismuth and Lead are easily volatilized due to low melting temperatures and as a consequent form these colored oxides (sublimates) further away from metal bead.

Equal amounts of Lead & Bismuth.
Image created with B&L SZ5 microscope @ 40 power, coupled to a ccd camera and computer.
Sublimate colors are a little different due to intense light source.
The Pb has formed a glassy coating over the spheroid.
The cracks in plaster tablet are due to heat from propane torch.
This bead was created from metal samples cut from larger pieces of metals, which the propane torch melted into a spheroid. The carved out depression is to help keep the metal in a confined area and not be blown away.

Equal amounts of Lead & Antimony
Image taken with 35mm camera, 135mm lens (Macro setting), shutter speed = 1/250th of second in bright sun using 200 film.

Equal amounts of Lead & Antimony
Image created with B&L SZ5 microscope @ 40 power, coupled to a ccd camera and computer.
Sublimate colors are different due to intense light source.
The cracks in plaster tablet are due to heat from propane torch.
The carved out depression is to help keep the metal in a confined area and not be blown away from blast of torch flame.

Equal amounts of Lead, Bismuth & Antimony
Image taken with 35mm camera, 135mm lens (Macro setting), shutter speed = 1/250th of second in bright sun using 200 film.

Equal amounts of Lead, Bismuth & Antimony
Image created with B&L SZ5 microscope @ 40 power, coupled to a ccd camera and computer.
Sublimate colors are considerably different due to intense light source.
The cracks in plaster tablet are due to heat from propane torch.

Equal amounts of Lead and Tin
Image taken with 35mm camera, 135mm lens (Macro setting), shutter speed = 1/250th of second in bright sun using 200 film.

Equal amounts of Lead and Tin.
Image created with B&L SZ5 microscope @ 40 power, coupled to a ccd camera and computer. Sublimate colors are slightly different due to intense light source, but the in-focus combined metal coloration is accurate.
The cracks in plaster tablet are due to heat from propane torch.. The whitish flake is plaster debris from the carved out depression that contains the metal.
It's obvious these two metals are not particularly compatible and form combined oxides.

Lead

1st image on white plaster tablet is a Lead button reduced from commercial Red Lead Oxide (Pb3O4) prior to this sublimate test. White plaster tablets do not show the yellow sublimates well for Lead. This dark color with some yellow-green is normal based upon the many tests I done.
2nd image on blackened plaster tablet is another Lead button that was reduced to metal state from Pb3O4 prior to this sublimate test. There is not a lot of white showing because I did not use a prolonged source of heat. Various amounts of sublimates will form depending upon how hot and force of the flame is. Plus, what portion of the flame is actually touching the metal/mineral.
3rd image are a few small pieces of Lead which was reduced to metal from Pb3O4 and Bismuth Flux placed under and over the small Lead beads. Bismuth Flux is made with equal weights of Sulfur and Potassium Iodide. Clearly there is no Sb or Bi present.
Colors = Accurate
Image obtained with 35mm camera and a 135mm lens, set at macro for close-up focusing, shutter speed = 1/125th of second in semi-cloudy conditions using 200 film and developed by a CVS Kodak 1 hour commercial lab and then digitized.

Lead metal button obtained by reducing Pb3O4 in a small fired clay dish prior to this sublimation test.
The white and hints of yellow-green are indicative of Lead exposed to the oxidizing flame of the propane torch.
Image obtained with 35mm camera and a 135mm lens, set at macro for close-up focusing, shutter speed = 1/125th of second in semi-cloudy conditions using 200 film and developed by a CVS Kodak 1 hour commercial lab and then digitized.

Lead + Antimony + Bismuth

This metal button was produced prior to this test, where equal amounts of each metal by volume (not weight) were combined for this sublimate test.
Antimony (Sb) sublimates (oxide) has obviously dominated.
The whitish area at bottom far right is due to my fingers accidentally touching this blackened plaster tablet.
Image obtained with 35mm camera and a 135mm lens, set at macro for close-up focusing, shutter speed = 1/125th of second in semi-cloudy conditions using 200 film and developed by a CVS Kodak 1 hour commercial lab and then digitized.

99% Lead & 99.5% Thallium

This image should have shown a date 12-17-06. I don’t know why I dated it for September, unless I was thinking of some previous tests?
There is only a hint of the normally brilliant green of thallium coming off the molten metal, unless I happened to move the torch flame slightly away metal as I tried to do a balancing act of holding the torch and focus the 35mm camera in other hand at same time. Multiple colored sublimates are easily noticed. I did not capture on film the usual brown smoke that coming off a molten but cooling thallium alloy. Practically all these colors, except the brown and blue have faded by the next day.

This blackened plaster tablet shows smudgy brown, blues and whites, but fails to show the various other colors.
The bead cavity area is white due to the torch flame burning off the soot.

10x of the Pb&Tl alloy . The metal colors are close to accurate except for the white reflected light. The tinge of surface red color is noticeable.

50x Colors are fairly close but not totally accurate due to shadows and reflective interferences. By careful scrutiny there can be detected a crystalline appaearence on the bead’s surface, as well as the brownish red, which I presume is primarily thallium oxide or carbonate.