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Meaning of 铈

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(Trad.: 鈰)
Pinyin: shì
English Definition: cerium (chemistry)
Chinese Definition:
①一种金属元素,是优良的还原剂,可用来制合金。
Total strokes: 10; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (metal) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ jīn ] gold, metal; money
    • [ shì ] city, town; market, fair; to trade
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Example Sentences
1
The catalytic converter on your exhaust system contains cerium and lanthanum.
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Over just two months last summer, prices on cerium jumped more than 450 percent.
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Unlike familiar window glass, metallic glasses are alloys made of metals - in this case cerium and aluminum.
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While cerium oxide is a rare Earth element, it is one of the more common ones. Its abundance has been compared to copper.
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They also say the metal cerium is readily available, being the most abundant of the "rare-earth" metals.