Cerium - Periodic Table of Videos
The sparks will fly as The Professor discusses element number 58. More links in description below ↓↓↓ Support Periodic Videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/periodicvideos A video...
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Cerium is one of only two elements which, if you strike it, will make sparks. One of them is iron and the other one is cerium. And so I bought this when I was on holiday a year ago. I haven’t had the chance to use it. It contains, it consists of a rod here which claims to have several metals including cerium. Let’s see if it sparks. Ok so cerium, element number 58, has some bizarre uses, would you believe it’s used in self-cleaning ovens. So it’s not very easy to do but, once you get the hang of it, it does go quite well. Cerium also has uses such for staining glass. So if you want to stain your glass yellow then you could use cerium in that. What is happening is that tiny pieces of cerium are being knocked off and, in the air, they just burst in...
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Cerium is one of only two elements which, if you strike it, will make sparks. One of them is iron and the other one is cerium. And so I bought this when I was on holiday a year ago. I haven’t had the chance to use it. It contains, it consists of a rod here which claims to have several metals including cerium. Let’s see if it sparks. Ok so cerium, element number 58, has some bizarre uses, would you believe it’s used in self-cleaning ovens. So it’s not very easy to do but, once you get the hang of it, it does go quite well. Cerium also has uses such for staining glass. So if you want to stain your glass yellow then you could use cerium in that. What is happening is that tiny pieces of cerium are being knocked off and, in the air, they just burst in...
