A fluorine-containing compound related to the rare earth element cerium.
From fluor- + cerium + -ine (chemical suffix). This term emerged as chemists began isolating and naming fluorine compounds of rare earth elements.
Cerium compounds with fluorine have unique properties in catalysis and materials science, but they're expensive to extract because cerium occurs mixed with other rare earth elements in nature.
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