Vanadium 23

Where is vanadium used--or where does it impact our everyday lives?

Vanadium, V

Atomic mass: 50.94 Atomic #: 23

Melting Point: 1910°C (3470°F)

Boiling Point: 3407°C (6165°F)

Density: 6.0 g/mL

Solid at room temperature Period : 4 Group: 5

Electron config: [Ar] 4s2 3d3

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A sample of a vanadium, lead and barium ore, francevillite, BaPb(UO2)2(VO4)2.5H2O from Mounana, Gabon on display at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC viewed during a Chemistry One field trip.

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Vanadium is named after Vanadis the Scandinavium goddess of beauty--as it forms an array of compounds with amazing colors.

Here is a blue solution with VO2+ ions.

V2+ is pale purple

V3+forms green solutions and VO3+ yellow.

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Chromium and vanadium are added to iron to make durable steels for tool manufacture. Here the adjustable pilers are made stronger with additives including about 0.5% vanadium.

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Vanadinite with romanechite, Pb5(VO4)3Cl, from Taouz, Morocco on display at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC viewed during a Chemistry One field trip.

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Synthetic garnets are often yttrium aluminium garnet Y3Al2(AlO4)3,

Other similar compounds have a formula A3B2(C O4)3. where A, B and C are different elements with silicon, Si, gemanium, Ge, gallium, Ga, aluminium, Al, vanadium. V or iron Fe with the O4.

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A renamed Crayola crayon--dark violet--of the color of vanadyl ions V2+

Part fo the Flinn Scientific "Goddess of Beauty" experiment which converts yellow VO2+ ions with acid to this vibrant blue VO2+ solution

Vanadium is named after Vanadis the Norse goddess of beauty

A black Crayola crayon--the same color as vanadium III oxide, V2O3