vanadium
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Definition of vanadium
: a silvery-grayish malleable ductile metallic element obtained from minerals and used especially to form alloys and in catalysts — see Chemical Elements Table
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JUNEAU - An Australia mining company wants to begin exploratory drilling for the rare element vanadium in Southeast Alaska. — Anchorage Daily News, "Australia company seeks OK for exploratory drilling in Alaska," 9 July 2019 These are sessile invertebrates that make use of vanadium in some of their enzymes, thus concentrating it in their bodies. — The Economist, "Buried metal artefacts gather stories on their surfaces," 4 July 2019 The demand boom has reinvigorated vanadium projects world-wide, including the efforts of Energy Fuels Inc. — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, "Vanadium Is Used to Strengthen Steel and China Can’t Get Enough of It," 27 Dec. 2018 Energy storage includes grid-scale lithium-ion batteries as well as vanadium and zinc flow batteries, lead-acid batteries, and advanced lead batteries. — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, "New year, same story: Cost of wind and solar fall below cost of coal and gas," 12 Nov. 2018 But in the future, analysts are expecting a shift in uses of vanadium. — Mark Burton, Bloomberg.com, "Best-Performing Battery Metal of the Past Year Isn't Cobalt," 26 Jan. 2018 The samples were sent to an independent lab for analysis and showed elevated levels of pollutants, including lead, selenium, vanadium, barium, cadmium, cobalt, manganese, and arsenic. — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, "Mobile Baykeeper: Coal ash endangers 'America's Amazon,' Mobile-Tensaw Delta," 28 Mar. 2018 It’s more expensive than the competition, but that’s because it’s made of chrome vanadium, an extremely tough and fracture-resistant material. — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, "The 4 Best Locking Pliers You Can Buy," 29 Jan. 2018 Basically, every part of it is bad for you, and researchers just found two more toxins to add to the list: nickel and vanadium. — Zoë Schlanger, Newsweek, "Surprise! The Air Near Major Ports Is Bad for Kids," 17 May 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'vanadium.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for vanadium
vanadium
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va·na·di·um
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Kids Definition of vanadium
: a metallic chemical element used in making a strong alloy of steel
vanadium
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va·na·di·um
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Medical Definition of vanadium
: a grayish malleable ductile polyvalent metallic element found combined in minerals and used especially to form alloys (as vanadium steel)
—symbol V
— see Chemical Elements Table
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