Facts About Lead and Cerium
Interesting Facts
- Galena mineral contains almost 87% of Lead metal in it, Galena is sulfide mineral.
- The best available source of Lead metal today is by recycling automobile batteries.
  
- Cerium is a rare earth metal but still it is not rare at all.
- It’s non-toxic compound Cerium sulfide has a rich red color and it is used as a pigment.
- Cerium metal is also used in Flat screen TVs, light bulb, floodlights, etc.
  
Sources
Earth's crust, Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of metals, Ores of Minerals
  
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals
  
History
  
  
Who Discovered
Unknown
  
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Wilhelm Hisinger
  
Discovery
In Middle Easterns (7000 BCE)
  
In 1803
  
Abundance
  
  
Abundance In Sun
~0.000001 %
  
18
~0.0000004 %
  
23
Abundance In Earth's Crust
Abundance In Humans
Not Available