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Definition of Vanadium

1. Noun. A soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite.

Definition of Vanadium

1. n. A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.

2. n. A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.

Definition of Vanadium

1. a metallic element [n -S] : VANADIC, VANADOUS [adj]

Medical Definition of Vanadium

1. A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Atomic weight: 51.2 Abbreviation: V Origin: NL, fr. Icel. Vanadis, a surname of the Scandinavian goddess Freya. (30 Mar 1998)

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