Storage battery: Plates for electric storage batteries consume the major quantity of Litharge. Pure Litharge alone or mixed with red lead or mixed with lead suboxide and red lead is used in heavy duty batteries and in batteries requiring extra long life.

USES (Litharge Chemical Grade):

Ceramic and glass industry: For manufacture of glass of high lead content having higher density, lower thermal conductivity, higher index of refraction, greater brilliance, stability and toughness than other glass.

Glazes and vitreous enamels: These are the glossy coatings used to protect ceramic bodies. Lead monoxide is one of the major raw materials for glazes. Vitreous enamels for metals are often formulated with litharge, chiefly for coating cast iron. Ferroelectric ceramics are prepared by fusing litharge with numerous other metallic oxides.

High Temperatures lubricant and greases: Lead monoxide effectively reduces the friction of metals in sliding contact with each other at temperatures up to 675°C.

Insecticides: Litharge is the primary material in the manufacture of lead Arsenate.

Inorganic Pigments: Litharge is used as a basic material in the manufacture of lead silicates, while white lead and lead is used for manufacturing of chromate pigments

Lead Soaps: Lead soaps widely used as driers in varnishes are made from litharge and organic acids.

Petroleum refining: Litharge is used in alkaline solution as sodium plumbite to convert meracaptans and free sulfur to disulfides

Rubber Industry: Litharge accelerates the curing rate and search time of rubber and is often used with other accelerators as well as an activator, chiefly in natural styrene- butadiene and nitrite rubbers. It is also used as a vulcanizing agent for chloroprene and polyethylacrylate rubbers.

Stabilizers for PVC: Litharge is the major active ingredient in the preparation of lead stabilizers for PVC. Superfine variety is also used as a stabilizer.