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It occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
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vanadium
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n. A chemical element, (''symbol'' V) with an atomic number of 23; it is a transition metal, used in the production of special steels.
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n. a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite [syn: V , atomic number 23 ]
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Vanadium is a chemical element with symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery grey, ductile and malleable transition metal . The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer ( passivation ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Vanadium \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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rare metallic element, 1833, named 1830 by Swedish chemist Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787-1845), from Old Norse Vanadis , one of the names of the Norse beauty goddess Freyja (perhaps from PIE *wen- (1) "to desire, strive for," which would connect it to Venus ...
Usage examples of vanadium.
As Ryan stepped out of the cage, with infinite caution, he saw that the walls on either side of it had been hacked and scarred, the reinforced concrete gouged and the vanadium steel of the door itself and its surround showing innumerable bright scratches.
Where the Navy Yard and the Anacostia River should have been was vanadium alloy floorplates joining with a wall.
A fourth wall was a mix of vanadium bars and a sliding armaglass portal.
Aluminum was added to an oxide of another, less reactive metal, such as chromium, manganese, vanadium, tungsten, or molybdenum.
It also mentions tin, cadmium, lead, bismuth, cobalt, titanium, vanadium, boron, sodium and zirconium as special purpose additives.
At the other end, twisted and buckled, were the remnants of a pair of dark green vanadium steel sec-doors.
Sewn between two layers of the finest Italian cordovan leather was a long, flexible metal strip about an inch wide by twelve inches long, made of an aluminum vanadium alloy, a razor-sharp blade down most of its length.
He would have to free a hand, preferably his right, and grab the vanadium blade from the sheathing of his belt in one rapid, smooth movement.
A biting chill went through Flinx as he recognized the ensemble, which was complete to the singular belt buckle cut from a solid crystal of vanadium and inlaid with gold skull and crossbones.
And it looked as if the bulkheads were made of some vanadium alloy that would resist their plastic explosives and grenades.
Ferrol had ordered some instruments and tools rich in vanadium to be dumped overboard.
Nothing short of an antitank shell could even dent the vanadium alloy.
Molybdenum, manganese, and vanadium help to keep your enzymes purring.
I read that to understand infinity you have to imagine that the whole damned planet is a sphere of polished vanadium steel.
I can go up to two hundred fifty millimeters using the activated vanadium pentasulphide in the praseodymium breakdown.