Ceria

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A genus of dipterous insects, of the family Syrphidæ, having elongate antennæ with a terminal style.
  • noun. [lowercase] An old name of some cestoid worm.
  • noun. Cerium oxid: used in small proportion, with thoria or thorium oxid, in the mantles of Welsbach incandescent gas-lamps.
  • noun. A drink made of corn; barley-water.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Cerium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the compound cerium(IV) oxide