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nouna soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
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- vanadium pentoxide any of various oxyacids of vanadium; known mostly in the form of its salts
- vanadinite a mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium
- vanadium steel steel alloyed with vanadium for greater strength and high-temperature stability
- vanadate a salt or ester of vanadic acid; an anion containing pentavalent vanadium
- vanadic acid any of various oxyacids of vanadium; known mostly in the form of its salts
- carnotite a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium