In this study, a certain amount of Cerium and Arsenic were closed in the barrel-shaped cylinder machined by H08 steel, heated to 1173 K for 50 h, and the interaction among the cerium, arsenic and iron in the barrel-shaped cylinder was studied by X-ray diffraction, optical microscopy and electronic probe microscopy analysis. The result shows that the gray phase is the ternary compound Ce12Fe57.5As41, and the ternary compound Ce12Fe57.5As41 is the main interaction product when the atomic ratio of Ce to As is 1:3. The eutectic compound Fe2As can be precipitated from ferrite with the temperature decreasing.