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Cerium

Page history last edited by cerium 10 years, 4 months ago

 Periodic Network

 

 

 

 Quote:

Light 'em up up up! I'm on fire! 

 

Status update:

10/9- Stupid smokers, always needing their cigarette lighters! I just wish they would lighten up, I'm under so much pressure to make those lighters.

 

10/10- I know it's cool that I help make self-cleaning ovens and all but these people really need to chill out and give us some time to make the ovens.

 

10/11- Man, if I get scratched with a knife one more time I think I'll just flame up.

 

11/4- Working on my latest equation: Ce + O2 → CeO2


Overview:

Here's a quick summary about my characteristics and personality. First of all I am malleable and yeah that means I'm pretty strong. Next, I can be sweet or I can be sour it all depends on how you decide to treat me. Thirdly, I'm a gray metal and there is plenty of me. Next, I'm soft and ductile and just a little harder than lead. Lastly, I am flammable.

Information: 

 

Relationship Status: 

 

Primary Relationship: 

 

network: 

metal

valence electrons:

reactivity: very reactive; I react most with oxygen, If you scratch me with a knife I set on fire. 
state of matter:  solid 
Location on Periodic Table: period: 6 group: Lanthanides   

Birthday: 

1803 

Hometown: 

I was found by J.J. Berzelius and Whilhelm Hisinger in Sweden.

Movies: 

I am an up and coming star so you'd better watch out for me. I just got done filming "The Rise of Cerium".   

Activities & Interests:

I flame up when I am struck with a sharpe object. In the air I tarnish. In cold water I oxide slowly but rapidly in hot water. I also dissolve in acids.

I am involved in the chemical equation: Ce + O2 → CeO2 , I create cerium oxide in this reaction.

I wish I could be in this equation: 2Ni(s) + O2(g) → 2NiO(s)

Places:

I've been found in Sweden in 1803. 

I have been found in present day Brazil. 

 I have also been found in present day United States. 


Photos:     

 

 

 

 Atom and Bonding Diagrams

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

 

 

Cerium Bohr Model

 

 Cerium Electron Dot Diagram

 

 

  

 

 Me and my friends - Around the World

 

 

 

 

 

 
 


 


 


 

  
 

Here's my good friend Lanthanum at work. She creates the spark in lighters and things like that. 

My friend Europium creates the red color in televisions. He works very hard everyday. 

Now my friend Neodymium is pure awesome. She's got a lot of jobs but my favorite is making earphones.   

Now it's time for me, I help with carbon arc lighting. That means I help illuminate movie sets and projector screens. 

Another use for my friend Lanthanum is  making Misch Metal. 

 

 


Groups:

I am a part of the Lanthanides group.

 

 

Resources:

"Cerium." Chemicool Periodic Table. Chemicool.com. 04 Oct. 2012. Web. 10/16/2013

Winter, Mark. "Cerium." WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements. N.p., 1993. Web. 17 Oct. 2013

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility - Office of Science Education. "The Element Cerium." It's Elemental. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2013.

John Emsley Nature’s Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements. "Cerium." Visual Elements Periodic Table. Oxford University Press, 2011. Web. 17 Oct. 2013

"Periodic Table of Elements: Los Alamos National Laboratory." Periodic Table of Elements: Los Alamos National Laboratory. N.p., 2010. Web. 17 Oct. 2013

"Cerium - Ce." Water Treatment Solutions. Lenntech B.V, 1998. Web. 17 Oct. 2013.

 


Friends:    

add your friends here - make sure you link it and insert their profile pictures    

Lanthanum Lanthanum profile picture.jpg

 

Europium europium.jpg

Neodymium Neodymium.JPG

 

 
         
         


 

 

Periodic Network

 

 

 

 

Comments (2)

Andrea Salem said

at 3:27 pm on Oct 24, 2013

Under "activities and interests" it mentions that you tarnish and oxide- what do these terms mean?

cerium said

at 8:49 am on Oct 29, 2013

When it says that I tarnish in air it means that the air causes me to lose my luster. It makes me duller. When it says I oxide it means that I form a binary compound with another group or element. In cold water I create a binary compound slower than I do in hot water.

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