Lead Acetate is an inorganic salt of lead. It is also called plumbous acetate or sugar of lead.Its also soluble in water and glycerine and forms lead trihydrate. Lead acetate is used as in textile printing and hair dyeing.It is also used in cleaning and maintenance of stainless steel firearm suppressors (silencers) and compensators and also has properties which make it a suitable drier in paints and in preparing other lead compounds such as lead nitritate,sulphate and phosphate.