About The Word Vanadium
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Vanadium
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What's The Definition Of Vanadium?
[n] a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
Synonyms | Synonyms for Vanadium: atomic number 23 | V Related Terms | Find terms related to Vanadium: See Also | carnotite | metal | metallic element | vanadinite Vanadium In Webster's Dictionary \Va*na"di*um\, n. [NL., fr. Icel. Vanad[=i]s, a surname
of the Scandinavian goddess Freya.] (Chem.)
A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found
combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as
an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is
intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having
both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely).
Atomic weight 51.2.
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