• Compounds
• Cerium Chloride
• Cerium Fluoride
• Cerium Oxide
• Cerium Sulfate
• Cerium Bromide
• Cerium Sulfide
• Abundance
• Cerium is not abundant in the rare Earth metals although it really isn't rare at all.
Cerium makes up about 0.0046% of the Earths crust today.
• Uses
• Cerium is used to make carbon arc lights which photographers use for studio lighting
or teachers use for projector lights. Cerium is a useful component of Misch metal
which is used to make flints. Cerium oxide is used in ovens as parts of the oven wall
to prevent build-up of cooking residues.
• History (discovery)
• Cerium was discovered by Wilhelm von Hisinger and Jöns Jacob Berzelius during
the winter of 1803 in Sweden. Martin Klaproth also discovered it around the same
time as Wilhelm von Hisinger and Jöns Jacob Berzelius in Germany. Hisinger and
Berselius were studying a Cerite and noticed a new element in it and further
examined it to discover Cerium.
• Cerium Chloride
• Cerium Fluoride
• Cerium Oxide
• Cerium Sulfate
• Cerium Bromide
• Cerium Sulfide
• Abundance
• Cerium is not abundant in the rare Earth metals although it really isn't rare at all.
Cerium makes up about 0.0046% of the Earths crust today.
• Uses
• Cerium is used to make carbon arc lights which photographers use for studio lighting
or teachers use for projector lights. Cerium is a useful component of Misch metal
which is used to make flints. Cerium oxide is used in ovens as parts of the oven wall
to prevent build-up of cooking residues.
• History (discovery)
• Cerium was discovered by Wilhelm von Hisinger and Jöns Jacob Berzelius during
the winter of 1803 in Sweden. Martin Klaproth also discovered it around the same
time as Wilhelm von Hisinger and Jöns Jacob Berzelius in Germany. Hisinger and
Berselius were studying a Cerite and noticed a new element in it and further
examined it to discover Cerium.