How to Use cerium in a Sentence
cerium
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Many products contain cerium oxide, a polishing agent commonly used for glass repair.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 17 May 2026
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Within it, the team can vaporize mixtures containing uranium, cerium, and cesium, and then control how the vapor is cooled.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 May 2026
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The list also includes 15 rare earth elements, such as cerium, dysprosium, neodymium and samarium.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
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Breaking electron rules For the study, the researchers used a material composed of cerium, ruthenium and tin (CeRu₄Sn₆).
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
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Formation under ambient conditions Monazite is a phosphate mineral rich in REEs such as cerium, lanthanum, and neodymium.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
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The mineral deposits at Bear Lodge contain both the magnet rare earth materials neodymium, praseodymium, samarium and terbium as well as cerium (Ce), lanthanum, yttrium, gadolinium, europium and dysprosium.
—Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
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