Definition of Ceria

1. n. Cerium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle.

Definition of Ceria

1. Noun. (chemistry) the compound cerium(IV) oxide ¹

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Definition of Ceria

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceria

cereologist
cereologists
cereology
cereolysin
cereopsis
cereous
ceresin
ceresine
ceresines
ceresins
cereus
cereuses
cerevisiae
cerge
cerges
ceria (current term)
cerian
cerias
ceric
ceriferous
ceriman
cerin
cering
cerins
ceriopyrochlore
ceriopyrochlores
ceriph
ceriphs
cerise
cerises

Literary usage of Ceria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by London, International congress on school hygiene (1900)
"This is entirely due to the difficulty of separating the last traces of ceria; and as 0 • 1 per cent, of ceria causes thoria to give about five candles per ..."

2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"Herr Schmidt made spectro-photometric investigations on thoria-ceria mixtures at various temperatures, and found that the higher the temperature the bluer ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... hut the presence of a small amount of ceria brings them in accord, as a bit of wax will bring into accord two tuning forks of slightly different pitch. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"With very high exhaustions the thoria plus ceria fluoresced the more brightly; ... These experiments show that thoria and ceria, both alone and mixed, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Many theories have been brought forward to explain the wonderful light-giving power of the mixture of 99 pc thoria and 1 pc ceria, but none of them explains ..."

6. Chemistry in the Service of Man by Alexander Findlay (1916)
"Neither thoria itself nor ceria itself has much light-giving power; ... The part played by the small quantity of ceria in the mantle is, therefore, ..."

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