Cerium

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Ce element

Broader Terms

rare earth element

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• Metallic cerium is prepared by reduction techniques, such as by reducing cerous fluoride with calcium, or by electrolysis of molten cerous chloride or other cerous halides.
• Sources Cerium is the most abundant so-called rare-earth metals.
• Say what?Cerium is pronounced as SER-i-em.
• von Hisinger in 1903 Cerium Cerium is a malleable, soft, ductile, iron-grey metal, slightly harder than lead.
• Cerium is the most abundant of the metals of the so-called rare-earths.

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