I'm not a chemist, but shouldn't that be cerium ammonium nitrate?
(http://www.organic-chemistry.org/chemicals/oxidations/ceriumammoniumnitrate-
can.shtm)
It's what the label of my Transene bottle says...

Dirk

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it is a nitrite. Cerium-ammonium nitride does not exist (there would be
immediate proton transfer from NH4+ to N3-, and the whole thing would either
explode, or at least heat up a lot)

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