![]() ![]() It is presently used in infrared optics and is finding growing use in solar cell technology. A cesium vapour-laser computer has been experimentally demonstrated and cesium is commonly used in magnetometers for submarine detection and mineral exploration geophysics. Electronics: The low ionization potential of cesium is exploited in photoelectric cell design and in photo-emissive and scintillation devices in electronics. ![]() This application represents the largest current industrial application for cesium. Manufacturing: Cesium formate, a specialty drilling fluid developed by Cabot Corporation, is used in drilling deep, high pressure, high-temperature oil wells.Cesium chloride has recently been found to be effective in treating all forms of cancer and shows great potential as a new cure for this disease. Radioactive isotopes of cesium have long been used for radiation treatment of, for example, prostate cancer. Cesium compounds are used as catalysts in biomedical and chemical research, and for tagging or tracing compounds. Biomedical Uses: The best-known use of cesium is in liquids for the separation of DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid.Pollucite currently occurs in commercial quantities in only two deposits in the world: the Tanco pegmatite in Manitoba, Canada and the Bikita pegmatite in Zimbabwe.Ĭesium has only been commercially available for about forty years as a by-product of lithium chemical production. Cesium is a silvery gold, soft, alkali metal and is one of five metals that is liquid at or near room temperature. Cesium is a very rare element, mostly found in unusual, highly evolved granitic pegmatite rocks in form of the mineral pollucite and in certain brines.Īvalon’s Lilypad property in Northwestern Ontario hosts a pollucite-rich pegmatite that may be a significant undeveloped cesium resource. Cesium (sometimes spelled ‘caesium’) was discovered by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff in 1860. Cesium was the first metal to be discovered by the spectroscope (invented the year before), along with rubidium. ![]()
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