-Number: #23
-Atomic Symbol: V
-Family Name: Transitional Metal
-Period Number: 4
-Group Name : 5B
-Atomic Weight: 50.9145
-Boiling Point: 3680 K (3407 C or 6165 F)
-Melting Point: 2183 K (1910 C Or 3470 F)
-Phase At Room Temperature: Solid
-Element Classification: Metal
-Color: Silvery Grey Metallic
-Classification: Metallic

It was first found by Andres Manuel del Rio (Mexican chemist) in 1801. He sent a letter, and samples to the Institute de France (Paris). Unfortunately the letter was lost in a shipwreck, but the sample and a few notes reached Paris.  However, a French chemist sent a letter back explaining to Del Rio that he had made a mistake, and this was impure chromium (which it is much like). Del Rio accepted that he could have made a mistake, and withdrew his claim. Then in 1830 Nils Gabriel Sefstrom (Sweden) rediscovered it, while analyzing iron samples (It’s named for the Scandinavian goddess, Vanadis, because of it’s pretty multicolored compounds). Isolated in 1867 by Sir Henry Roscoe of England, it is still around today, for mostly the same uses.

It's main use is being added to steels to make them stronger. It bonds Steel and Titanium, because it's foil bonds Steel and Titanium, as well as being a carbide stabilizer in steel. It helps make rust resistant and high-speed metal tools. It’s foil bonds Steel and Titanium. Also, it is used to make superconductive magnets with fields of 175,000 gauss. It doesn’t absorb neutrons easily, so is sometimes used in Nuclear Power Industry. It also helps make special tubes, and pipes (for chemicals). Vanadium speeds up certain chemical reactions, and can permanently fix dyes to fabrics. It is often found not by itself. Usually it is part of other minerals. These are the uses of Vanadium, the unheard of Transitional metal.

Atomic structure:

23 protons,
28 neutrons,
23 electrons.

First level:----2
Second level:-8
Third level:---11
Fourth level:--2  

In some cutting objects (as ferrovanadium, which is a strong, shock and erosion resistant alloy of iron), and in axles (for cars, and most other vehicles with wheels) and any special pipes.

Vanadium is usualy isolated by simply being a bi-product of other chemical processes that include the minerals that's it found in (as it is usually found in other minerals). One way to isolate smaller quantities is to reduce vanadium pentachloride by reacting it with magnesium or hydrogen, which gives you pure vanadium. The longer, more used process for bigger quantities, is: Heat vanadium ore to 1562 F and react it with sodium chloride or sodium carbonate. Now you have vanadium pentoxide, and then you dissolve and acidify it in water. After re-heating it, you create a reaction with calcium, and then you have pure vanadium. However, the one common big source of vanadium that is made is ferrovanadium, which you get by reacting vanadium pentoxide with crude iron. Those are the ways to Isolate and purify Vanadium.

A Silvery, Crystal Like Element, it is Metallic, and silver colored. Found in small little pieces, usually in other minerals, it is cut unevenly, like little rocks. It seems to stick together like small little magnets. It's also Solid.

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