Vanadium Definition

və-nādē-əm
noun
A rare, malleable, ductile, silver-white, metallic chemical element: it is alloyed with steel, to which it adds tensile strength, and is used in nuclear applications, etc.: symbol, V; at. no. 23
Webster's New World

(physics) The naturally-occurring radioactive isotope of vanadium, 5023V, having twenty-three protons and twenty-seven neutrons; its half-life is 1.5 x 1017 years.

Wiktionary

(physics) The only stable isotope of vanadium, 5123V, having twenty-three protons and twenty-eight neutrons.

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Synonyms:
  • atomic number 23
  • v
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Origin of Vanadium

  • From Old Norse Vanadīs the goddess Freya wen-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Vanadis, a name of Freyja + -ium

    From Wiktionary

Vanadium Sentence Examples

  • Roscoelite is a mica in which the aluminium is largely replaced by vanadium (V203, 30%); it occurs as brownish-green scaly aggregates, intimately associated with gold in California, Colorado and Western Australia.

  • The distillate is freed from vanadium by digestion with sodium amalgam.

  • Chemically related to vanadium are the two elements tantalum and columbium or niobium.

  • Within these limits are to be found most of the minerals known - gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, lead, zinc, iron, manganese, wolfram, bismuth, thorium, vanadium; mica, coal, &c. On or near the coast are coal, salt, sulphur, borax, nitrates and petroleum.

  • Vanadium, molybdenum and titanium may be expected soon to play an important part in the constitution of steel.

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Words Starting With

VVAVAN

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