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Grade 7 (L53585) Lead-Base Babbitt Metal

Grade 7 Babbitt Metal is a lead alloy. Cited properties are appropriate for the as-fabricated (no temper or treatment) condition. L53585 is the UNS number for this material. Additionally, the ASTM designation is Babbitt Grade 7.

It has a moderately low heat capacity among the alloys in the same category in the database.

The graph bars on the material properties cards below compare grade 7 Babbitt Metal to: lead alloys (top), all alloys in the same category (middle), and the entire database (bottom). A full bar means this is the highest value in the relevant set. A half-full bar means it's 50% of the highest, and so on.

Mechanical Properties

Brinell Hardness

Compressive (Crushing) Strength

110 MPa 16 x 10³ psi

Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus

26 GPa 3.7 x 10⁶ psi

Poisson's Ratio

0.4

Shear Modulus

9.1 GPa 1.3 x 10⁶ psi

Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof)

25 MPa 3.6 x 10³ psi

Thermal Properties

Latent Heat of Fusion

48 J/g

Melting Completion (Liquidus)

270 °C 510 °F

Melting Onset (Solidus)

240 °C 460 °F

Specific Heat Capacity

150 J/kg-K 0.036 BTU/lb-°F

Thermal Expansion

26 µm/m-K

Otherwise Unclassified Properties

Base Metal Price

23 % relative

Density

10 g/cm³ 640 lb/ft³

Embodied Carbon

4.4 kg CO₂/kg material

Embodied Energy

62 MJ/kg 27 x 10³ BTU/lb

Embodied Water

880 L/kg 100 gal/lb

Common Calculations

Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience)

12 kJ/m³

Stiffness to Weight: Axial

1.4 points

Stiffness to Weight: Bending

9.6 points

Alloy Composition

Lead (Pb)Pb		71.9 to 76.4
Antimony (Sb)Sb		14 to 16
Tin (Sn)Sn		9.3 to 10.7
Arsenic (As)As		0.3 to 0.6
Copper (Cu)Cu		0 to 0.5
Iron (Fe)Fe		0 to 0.1
Bismuth (Bi)Bi		0 to 0.1
Cadmium (Cd)Cd		0 to 0.050
Aluminum (Al)Al		0 to 0.0050
Zinc (Zn)Zn		0 to 0.0050