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vanadium (V, 4F3/2 in ground state)
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vanadium	has symbol V
	has lethal intake 10 mg kg-1 V2O5 ingested by rat
	has main mining area not mined as such, obtained as ore by-product and from Venezuelan oils
	has mineral carnotite, descloizite, patronite, vanadinite
	has neutron scattering length -0.0382 × 10-12 cm
	has electron affinity 50.7 kJ mol-1 from V to V-
	has toxic intake varies
	has poisson's ratio 0.365 GPa
	has bulk modulus 158 GPa
	has rigidity modulus 46.7 GPa
	has young's modulus 127.6 GPa
	has mass magnetic susceptibility +6.28 × 10-8 kg-1 m3 for solid
	has electrical resistivity 24.8 × 10-8 Ω m at 293 K
	has thermal neutron capture cross section 5.08 barns
	has longest lived isotope vanadium 51
	has isotope mass range 44 to 55
	has number of isotopes 11 including nuclear isomers
	has pronunciation van-ay-di-uhm
	has name origin Vanadis = Scandinavian goddess from Scandinavian
	has discovery location Mexico City, Mexico
	has abundance 1.05 × 104 in Sun relative to H = 1 × 1012
	has abundance 160 p.p.m. in Earth's crust
	has abundance 1.1 × 10-3 p.p.m. in Atlantic surface seawater
	has abundance 1.6 × 10-3 p.p.m. in Pacific surface seawater
	has abundance 1.8 × 10-3 p.p.m. in deep Pacific seawater
	has specimen foil, granules, powder, rod, turnings. Care !
	has world production 7000 tonnes year-1
	has chief source descloizite, patronite, vanadinite, carnotite
	has mass absorption coefficient 233 cm2 g-1 for CuKalpha X-ray diffraction
	has mass absorption coefficient 27.5 cm2 g-1 for MoKalpha X-ray diffraction
	has space group Im3m
	has crystal cell dimension a = 302.40 pm
	has crystal type b.c.c.
	has atomic emission line 318.398 nm for V I
	has atomic emission line 318.540 nm for V I (used in atom absorption spectrometry)
	has atomic emission line 411.178 nm for V I
	has atomic emission line 437.924 nm for V I (strong)
	has atomic emission line 438.472 nm for V I
	has atomic emission line 399.864 nm for V I
	has term symbol 4F3/2 in ground state
	has electron configuration [Ar]3d34s2 in ground state
	has mass of element in person 0.11 mg for a 70 kg average person
	has daily dietary intake 0.04 mg
	has level in humans < 0.0002 mg dm-3 in blood
	has level in humans 0.0035 p.p.m. in bone
	has level in humans 0.006 p.p.m. in liver
	has level in humans 0.02 p.p.m. in muscle
	has hazard irritates eyes and lungs; highly toxic fumes
	has hazard mutagenic effect in some experimental compounds
	has biological role essential to some species including humans; stimulates metabolism
	has linear expansion coefficient 8.3 × 10-6 K-1
	has thermal conductivity 30.7 W m-1 K-1 at 300 K
	has molar volume 8.34 cm3
	has heat capacity 24.89 J K-1 mol-1 for solid at constant pressure 0.1 MPa at 298.15 K
	has heat capacity 26.012 J K-1 mol-1 for gas at constant pressure 0.1 MPa at 298.15 K
	has heat of vaporization 458.6 kJ mol-1
	has heat of fusion 17.6 kJ mol-1
	has boiling point 3650 K
	has melting point 2160 K
	has electronegativity 1.63 Pauling
	has relative atomic mass 50.9415 in units of 12C = 12.000
	has ionic radii 59 pm for V5+
	has ionic radii 61 pm for V4+
	has ionic radii 65 pm for V3+
has ionic radii 72 pm for V2+
has atomic radii 132 pm
has number of protons 23
has registry number 7440-62-2 for Chemical Abstracts System database
has density 6110 kg m-3 for solid at 292 K
has density 5550 kg m-3 for liquid at 2160 K melting point
has ocean oxidation state V
has ocean residence time 50000 years
has atomic number
reacts with concentrated acids
has discovery date 1801
has discoverer A.M. del Rio
has uses alloys, especially in steel
has image
has definition shiny, silvery metal, soft when pure. Resists corrosion due to a protective film of oxide
is a kind of transition metal
is a kind of recycled oceanic element
recycled oceanic element	has ocean concentration increasing with depth
column grouped element	has group a column number in the table of the elements
oceanic element	has occurrence ocean
element	is a part of Universe
	has synonym atom
particle	obeys uncertainty principle
	has frequency inversely proportional to the wavelength
	has wavelength inversely proportional to its momentum
	has charge
	has mass
physical object	has location or center of gravity
	has angular momentum
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has temperature
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

Kinds of vanadium :

• vanadium 47 (10 facts) (V)
• vanadium 48 (10 facts) (V)
• vanadium 49 (10 facts) (V)
• vanadium 50 (15 facts) (⁵⁰V)
• vanadium 51 (15 facts) (⁵¹V)

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