Cerium Oxide

Cerium Oxide

  • Formula: CeO2
  • Nol.wt.: 172.12
  • CAS: 1036-38-3
  • Appearance: light yellow powder
  • Uses: Mainly used as the glass decolorizing agent and the glass polishing powder. Also used as the raw material in making metal cerium. High purity Cerium dioxide is very important in the applications of rare earth fluorescent materials.
Code CeO-3N CeO-3.5N CeO-4N
Total amount of rare earth oxides % ≥99 ≥99 ≥99
Cerium purity and relative rare earth impurities
CeO2/TREO % 99.9 99.95 99.995
La2O3/TREO % ≤0.08 ≤0.04 ≤0.004
Pr6O11/TREO % ≤0.01 ≤0.01 ≤0.003
Nd2O3/TREO % ≤0.005 ≤0.005 ≤0.001
Sm2O3/TREO % ≤0.004 ≤0.005 ≤0.002
Y2O3/TREO % ≤0.0001 ≤0.001 ≤0.001
Non rare earth impurity
Fe2O% ≤0.005 ≤0.005 ≤0.002
SiO% ≤0.02 ≤0.015 ≤0.01
CaO % ≤0.01 ≤0.005 ≤0.005
Cl % ≤0.06 ≤0.06 ≤0.05
SO 2 4 % ≤0.06 ≤0.06 ≤0.05
Radioactive 1Bq/g
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