Cerium

Cerium uses and applications include: Cerium salts; cerium-iron alloys; ignition devices; military signaling; illuminant in photography; reducing scavenger; catalyst; alloys for jet engines; solid-state devices; rocket propellants; vacuum tubes; diluent in plutonium nuclear fuels; stabilizer in alloys and polymers; glass polishing agent, opacifier, decolorizer; ceramics opacifier, strengthener; combustion additive; polymerization initiator; paint drier; as phosphor in fluorescent lamps, cathode ray tubes