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Cerium Metal stands as a foundational element in advanced metallurgy and modern material science. In its refined state, it presents itself as a striking silver-gray ingot that feels remarkably dense and substantial to the touch. When freshly cut or fractured, the surface reveals a brilliant, mirror-like metallic luster that speaks volumes about its uncompromised purity. However, this visual brilliance is fleeting in natural atmospheres; its highly active atomic structure eagerly interacts with oxygen, necessitating immediate and rigorous shielding. The tactile reality of this metal—heavy, solid, yet chemically eager to bond—makes it an indispensable and highly responsive catalyst in contemporary manufacturing environments. It dissolves effortlessly in acids and reducing agents, unlocking profound structural transformations when introduced into complex alloy matrixes.
By integrating this highly refined material into your production cycles, you immediately elevate the mechanical resilience and thermal stability of your end products. Whether it is utilized as a vital structural enhancer in specialized steel formulations or as a transformative agent in non-ferrous matrixes, this metal dramatically refines grain structures and purges microscopic impurities from the melt. Furthermore, its unique electron configuration grants it exceptional utility in advanced energy applications, including hydrogen storage and specialized conductivity enhancements. The result is a fundamentally superior end-product that withstands extreme operational stress, ultimately driving down your long-term material failure rates, reducing costly production downtimes, and elevating your overall market competitiveness.
Basic Parameters | |
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Material Name | Cerium Metal |
Formula | Ce |
CAS No. | 7440-45-1 |
EINECS No. | 231-154-9 |
Molecular Weight | 140.12 |
Density | 6.67 g/cm³ |
Melting Point | 795°C |
Boiling Point | 3250°C |
Appearance | Silver gray ingot or lump, or other customized size |
Purity/Specification (Ce/REM) | 99% - 99.99% |
Storage | Extremely prone to oxidation, highly flammable, sealed with argon for storage. |
Purity | RE% min. | Ce/RE% min. | Rare earth impurities %max. | Non rare earth impurities %max. |
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2N | 99 | 99 | 1 | Fe 0.2, Si 0.01, Al 0.05, C 0.04, S 0.02 |
2N5 | 99 | 99.5 | 0.5 | Fe 0.15, Si 0.01, Al 0.05, C 0.04, S 0.02 |
3N | 99 | 99.9 | 0.1 | Fe 0.1, Si 0.01, Al 0.05, C 0.04, S 0.02 |
Our Cerium Metal is engineered to eliminate the common variables that disrupt advanced manufacturing processes. By focusing on structural uniformity and elemental precision, we provide a material that acts as a reliable foundation for your most demanding projects.
Exceptional Reactivity Profile: Rapidly and uniformly dissolves in target matrixes, significantly reducing your necessary processing time and energy expenditure.
Microstructural Consistency: Free from internal voids or structural anomalies, ensuring predictable melting behaviors and precise alloy dosing.
Direct Source Economics: By bypassing intermediaries, you secure a highly competitive cost structure while maintaining a direct line to technical manufacturing support.
Scalable Supply Architecture: Whether your operations require laboratory-scale testing quantities or massive industrial tonnages, our production adapts to your exact consumption rate.
In the realm of advanced material synthesis, even microscopic elemental deviations can lead to catastrophic failures in the final product. We understand that your procurement standards demand absolute chemical fidelity. Our Cerium Metal achieves an exceptional purity range of 99% to 99.99%, meticulously engineered to prevent any unwanted metallurgical interference.
Strict Rare Earth Isolation: We rigorously suppress competing rare earth impurities (such as La, Pr, Nd, Sm, and Y) to as low as 0.1%, ensuring that the unique properties of Cerium dominate your reactions.
Non-Rare Earth Control: Base contaminants like Iron (Fe), Silicon (Si), and Aluminum (Al) are aggressively filtered out. Iron is kept strictly below 0.1% in our 3N grade, preventing unwanted magnetic or corrosive vulnerabilities in your final alloys.
Carbon and Sulfur Mitigation: By maintaining Carbon (C) and Sulfur (S) at absolute minimums (0.04% and 0.02% respectively), we eliminate the risk of embrittlement in your specialized steel formulations.
A material is only as useful as its ability to integrate into your existing infrastructure. Forcing your facility to adapt to standard material sizes results in wasted labor, increased oxidation risks during resizing, and unnecessary material loss. We eliminate this friction by offering deep physical customization.
Versatile Base Forms: Available in dense ingots for large-scale melting, manageable lumps for precision dosing, or fine powders for specialized chemical and catalytic applications.
Furnace-Ready Sizing: We tailor the dimensions and weight of each piece to match your specific crucible sizes and feed mechanisms, allowing for direct-to-furnace application.
Surface Optimization: Our controlled cooling processes ensure a smooth, uniform exterior that minimizes the surface area exposed to potential atmospheric degradation prior to use.
The inherent versatility of Cerium Metal makes it a vital component across a spectrum of cutting-edge industries. Its unique ability to alter the physical and magnetic properties of other elements allows you to push the boundaries of your product development.
Advanced Magnetic Materials: Serves as a critical, highly effective substitute for Samarium in Sm2Co17 magnet formulations, offering excellent thermal stability and magnetic coercivity.
Metallurgical Enhancement: Acts as a potent additive in special steels and non-ferrous alloys, refining the grain boundary, enhancing tensile strength, and significantly improving oxidation resistance.
Next-Generation Energy: Exhibits immense potential as a hydrogen storage medium and an active component in advanced solid-state electricity storage systems.
Ignition and Catalysis: Remains the foundational material for manufacturing high-reliability flints and serves as a powerful catalyst in complex petrochemical refining processes.
The extreme reactivity of Cerium Metal—particularly its tendency to spontaneously combust in powder form and rapidly oxidize in air—makes safe transit and storage a critical operational challenge. We have engineered a packaging protocol that completely neutralizes these risks, ensuring the material arrives at your facility exactly as it left our vacuum chambers.
Inert Atmosphere Sealing: Every batch is hermetically sealed within robust iron drums that are completely purged of oxygen and backfilled with high-purity Argon gas, completely halting the oxidation process.
Vacuum Extraction Options: For specific dimensional requirements, we utilize heavy-duty, multi-layered vacuum packaging that physically locks out moisture and atmospheric contaminants.
Liquid Shielding: For smaller lumps or highly sensitive applications, the metal can be fully submerged in specialized, non-reactive mineral oil, providing a physical barrier against air exposure.
Compliance in Transit: All packaging strictly adheres to international hazardous materials transport regulations, guaranteeing smooth customs clearance and secure cross-border logistics.
The internal integrity of Cerium Metal is dictated entirely by the sophistication of its extraction and refinement. We do not rely on outdated, high-impurity smelting techniques. Instead, we deploy state-of-the-art metallurgical processes that build quality into the metal at the atomic level.
Vacuum Distillation: By vaporizing and condensing the metal under extreme vacuum conditions, we effectively separate Cerium from elements with differing vapor pressures, achieving the coveted 99.99% purity threshold.
Fused Salt Electrolysis: Utilizing precisely controlled electrolytic baths, we extract the metal with exceptional stoichiometric precision, resulting in a dense, uniform ingot free from trapped slag or flux inclusions.
Thermal Reduction: Our advanced metallothermic reduction processes ensure that even the most stubborn oxygen bonds are broken, yielding a highly active, uncompromised final product.
In large-scale industrial procurement, consistency is just as critical as quality. We understand that your supply chain cannot tolerate variability. Our entire operational framework is built around mitigating your procurement risks through relentless, documented quality assurance.
Comprehensive OQC Protocols: Every single batch undergoes rigorous Outgoing Quality Control, utilizing ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) to map elemental composition down to the parts-per-million.
International Compliance: Our facilities operate under strict ISO-certified management systems, and our materials comply with global environmental and safety directives including RoHS and CE standards.
Transparent Traceability: Each shipment is accompanied by a detailed Certificate of Analysis (COA) that corresponds directly to the batch number stamped on your containers.
Risk-Free Evaluation: We actively support your R&D and qualification processes by providing representative samples, allowing your engineers to validate the material's performance within your proprietary systems before committing to volume orders.
Selecting a material partner is a strategic decision that directly impacts your operational viability and bottom line. We position ourselves not merely as a vendor, but as an integrated extension of your supply chain, dedicated to solving your most complex material challenges.
Unmatched Manufacturing Pedigree: Decades of specialized focus on rare earth refinement have equipped us with the proprietary knowledge required to consistently outpace industry purity standards.
Agile Production Capacity: Our vertically integrated facilities allow us to rapidly scale production, absorbing sudden spikes in your demand without compromising on lead times or quality.
Engineering-Level Support: You communicate directly with metallurgical experts who understand the nuances of your applications, ensuring you receive the exact grade and form required for your specific process.
Global Logistics Mastery: We navigate the complexities of international hazardous material shipping daily, ensuring your highly sensitive Cerium Metal arrives safely, legally, and on schedule, regardless of your geographic location.
How do you prevent the Cerium Metal from oxidizing during long-duration international shipping?
We utilize a multi-tiered protective strategy. The metal is placed inside heavy-duty iron drums which are then subjected to a deep vacuum to remove all atmospheric moisture and oxygen. The void is immediately backfilled with high-purity Argon gas before being hermetically sealed. This inert environment completely suspends any oxidation or combustion risks during transit.
Can the physical dimensions of the ingots be tailored to fit our specific induction furnace?
Absolutely. We understand that resizing active metals on your end introduces safety risks and material loss. We offer comprehensive dimensional customization, allowing us to cast the ingots or break the lumps into the precise weights and sizes required for your direct-to-furnace feeding systems.
What makes your Cerium Metal suitable for high-performance magnetic applications like Sm2Co17?
For magnetic applications, the presence of specific impurities can drastically degrade coercivity and remanence. Our 3N (99.9%) grade Cerium Metal is subjected to rigorous refinement to suppress iron (Fe) to below 0.1% and strictly limit other rare earth cross-contaminants, ensuring it acts as a flawless, stable substitute for Samarium in your magnetic matrixes.
How does the addition of this metal improve specialized steel alloys?
When introduced into a steel melt, Cerium acts as a powerful deoxidizer and desulfurizer. It reacts with impurities to form stable compounds that float to the slag, effectively purging the metal. Furthermore, it alters the morphology of remaining inclusions and refines the grain boundary, which significantly enhances the steel's toughness, ductility, and resistance to high-temperature oxidation.
What documentation accompanies each shipment to verify the chemical composition?
Every shipment is dispatched with a comprehensive, batch-specific Certificate of Analysis (COA) generated by our internal ICP-MS testing laboratory. This document provides an exact breakdown of both rare earth and non-rare earth impurities. Additionally, we provide complete Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and all necessary hazardous transport certifications to ensure full regulatory compliance.
