April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English

Metallic V, discovered twice, the hard in “hard as steel,”
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GROUP 5 TRANSITION METAL
Vanadium was discovered by two different scientists 30 years apart. In 1801, Mexican mineralogist Professor Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849) found it in a sample of a lead-based mineral known today as vanadinite, (Pb5(VO4)3Cl). But subsequent chemical analysis at the French Institute in Paris ...