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Light 'em up up up! I'm on fire!
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Status update:
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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
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Overview:
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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.
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Primary Relationship:
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valence electrons:
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2
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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:
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1803
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Hometown:
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I was found by J.J. Berzelius and Whilhelm Hisinger in Sweden. |
Movies:
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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:
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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.
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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)
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I've been found in Sweden in 1803.
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I have been found in present day Brazil.
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I have also been found in present day United States.
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Atom and Bonding Diagrams
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Cerium Bohr Model
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Cerium Electron Dot Diagram
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Me and my friends - Around the World
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Here's my good friend Lanthanum at work. She creates the spark in lighters and things like that.
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My friend Europium creates the red color in televisions. He works very hard everyday.
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Now my friend Neodymium is pure awesome. She's got a lot of jobs but my favorite is making earphones.
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Now it's time for me, I help with carbon arc lighting. That means I help illuminate movie sets and projector screens.
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Another use for my friend Lanthanum is making Misch Metal.
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Groups:
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I am a part of the Lanthanides group.
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Resources:
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"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.
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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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