What Do You Know About The Chemical Element Cerium?
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 110
Cerium is a soft, silvery-white chemical element that perishes when exposed to air. Cerium is soft and ductile that it can be cut with a knife. How good is your chemistry?
Questions and Answers
- 1.
What is the atomic number of Cerium?- A.
58
- B.
99
- C.
23
- D.
62
- 2.
In what year was cerium discovered?
- A.
1877
- B.
1777
- C.
1803
- D.
1822
- 3.
What is the symbol of the chemical element cerium?
- A.
Cm
- B.
Ce
- C.
Ce
- D.
CeCe
- 4.
What is the atomic mass of cerium?
- A.
122
- B.
140
- C.
188
- D.
166
- 5.
On the periodic table, cerium is found in period?
- A.
2
- B.
3
- C.
6
- D.
4
- 6.
An oxide of cerium is used as?
- A.
Drying agent
- B.
Antisteroid
- C.
Additive
- D.
Glass polishing agent
- 7.
How does cerium react with cold water?
- A.
Explosively
- B.
Violently
- C.
Slowly
- D.
Reactive
- 8.
Cerium was named after the asteroid Ceres, which was discovered in?
- A.
1922
- B.
1801
- C.
1888
- D.
1902
- 9.
Based on its physical and chemical properties, cerium is classified as a?
- A.
Earth metal
- B.
Noble metal
- C.
Rare-earth metal
- D.
Rare gas
- 10.
Cerium has how many stable isotopes?
- A.
5
- B.
1
- C.
6
- D.
4
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