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Cerium

noun
1.
A ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group.  Synonyms: atomic number 58, Ce.





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"Cerium" Quotes from Famous Books



... celebrated Swedish chemist, one of the creators of modern chemistry; instituted the chemical notation by symbols based on the notion of equivalents; determined the equivalents of a great number of simple bodies, such as cerium and silenium; discovered silenium, and shared with Davy the honour of propounding the electro-chemical theory; he ranks next to Linnaeus as a man of ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... possess tanning properties when in the colloidal state, e.g., sulphur, halogens, chromium salts, iron salts, silver oxide, and the salts of mercury, copper, bismuth, zinc, lead, platinum, cesium, vanadium, and the rare earths (salts of cerium, lanthanum, ...
— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser


Words linked to "Cerium" :   bastnasite, ytterbite, bastnaesite, cerous, metal, monazite, metallic element, gadolinite


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