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Yes. Choose a nonprincipal ultrafilter on $\mathbb{N}$ and letFor each fixed positive integer $n$, the equality $na=0$ holds in the $i$th factor exactly when $i$ divides $n$. Only finitely many positive integers divide $n$, so the cofinite set of indices for which $na\ne 0$ belongs to $\mathcal{U}$. Łoś theorem gives $na\ne 0$ in $\mathcal{C}$ for every $n>0$. Thus $a$ has infinite order of a group element.

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No. Suppose a formula with parameters defined a function $f:\mathcal{C}\to \mathcal{C}$ that was surjective and not injective. The assertions that the formula defines a function, that the function is surjective, and that it is not injective are all first-order statements about that formula and those parameters. By Łoś theorem, they would hold simultaneously in ${\mathcal{C}}_i$ for $\mathcal{U}$-almost every $i$.

Every surjective self-map of a finite set is injective, so no finite factor can satisfy those statements. This contradiction shows that the ultraproduct has no such definable function.

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Fix $n\ge 1$ and let ${\mathbb{E}}_i/{\mathbb{F}}_i$ be the unique degree-$n$ finite-field extension. Łoś theorem shows thatis a field extension of $\mathcal{F}$ of degree $n$: ultraproducts of chosen bases satisfy the first-order linear-independence and spanning statements.

Conversely, let $\mathcal{F}(\alpha )/\mathcal{F}$ have degree $n$, with irreducible minimal polynomial $f$. Represent its coefficients by polynomials $f_i$. Irreducibility in fixed degree is first-order, so $f_i$ is irreducible of degree $n$ for ${\mathcal{U}}_2$-almost every $i$. Its root generates ${\mathbb{E}}_i$, and the ultraproduct of these roots induces an $\mathcal{F}$-isomorphism $\mathcal{F}(\alpha )\cong \mathbb{E}$. Hence the degree-$n$ algebraic extension exists and is unique.

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