Pink Lead Azide... What happened?

So as the title said, my latest Lead Azide synth ended up with a light to medium pink precipitate and an orange filtrate, as opposed to the normal whitish grey precipitate and clear filtrate.
I’ve used the same reagent grade sodium azide for a while now, stored properly sealed in a lightproof HDPE media bottle - 6.5g or 0.1M in 16ml H₂O for an approximately saturated solution. The Lead Nitrate was a 1g/ml solution, ~17ml/17g/0.05M worth - I made it a month ago from lead and dilute HNO₃. Usually I evaporate off the liquid and crystallize out the Pb(NO₃)₂ but this one I just left in solution, titrated it and diluted down to ~1g/ml, and sealed in a media bottle.
On mixing, the precipitate was instantly a pinkish orange. As I started to filter I got a definite whiff of a very pungent smell - very much acetic anhydride like, both in its intensity and actual smell, despite the mixing and filtering taking place in a fume hood (though open pretty wide) - Hydroazotic acid was my immediate supposition, so I took a wash bottle of NaOH solution and added it to the filter flask, shut the cabinet and GTFO’d.
Anyway, after I checked the Lead Nitrate solution pH against a fresh 1g/ml solution from solid Pb(NO₃)₂ and it is definitely more acidic, around 1-2 vs 2-3 for the fresh. I decided to try a run with the fresh solution and while it was much better, there was still a definite pinkish orange noticeable.
It’s difficult to tell the colors from the pictures but the fresh run is on the left, the first run on the right. Also the picture of the filtrate is after the NaOH has gone to town on it so it’s much darker than it was to start but it gives you an idea anyway.

Any ideas on what the discoloration is, side reactions, thoughts?

So you’re right @TSjerk, the lead is fishing weight grade. That was the conclusion I’ve come to myself - the color must be from some other metal Azide - checked the same lead nitrate with a different source of NaN₃ and the color was the same (which it’s not that saturated IRL, just adjusted the picture to make it clear). Also checking under magnification, it seems as though the color is mostly in solution. The precipitate is normal grey white. So I’ve been searching through different candidates for a water soluble azide by narrowing the search to common lead alloying metals but haven’t reached a definite conclusion yet.

ETA: also, forgot to mention but in a direct side-by-side comparison with a non-discolored sample, there doesn’t seem to be any detectable change in sensitivity to flame, impact, or friction.

@ordenblitz, we’re definitely on the same page, that’s actually less than 10g NaN₃ with a ton of excess water - the picture is of the raw yield of the original and 2nd test run combined for a sense of scale. It looked like more due to my giving it a swirl to to get the best picture so it hadn’t settled yet.

But that’s not to say that 10g doesn’t need to be treated with respect - I’ve been using the safety protocols laid out in a journal article on HgN₃ crystallization for a while now - leather apron and gloves, face shield, earplugs, lexan shield in front of the fume hood, etc., which is probably way overkill since I’m not crazy enough to ever attempt to work with anything nearly as sensitive as HgN₃ especially in quantity, but you only get one chance so better safe than sorry.




[Edited on 15-12-2020 by Delta-R]