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vanadium pentoxide

noun

Definition of vanadium pentoxide

: a yellowish-red crystalline compound V2O5 used especially in glass manufacture and as a catalyst

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 Price for vanadium pentoxide fused flake in Rotterdam. — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, "Vanadium Is Used to Strengthen Steel and China Can’t Get Enough of It," 27 Dec. 2018

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First Known Use of vanadium pentoxide

1869, in the meaning defined above

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