VANADIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vanadium mean? 

• VANADIUM (noun)
  The noun VANADIUM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: VANADIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VANADIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 23; V; vanadium

Hypernyms ("vanadium" is a kind of...):

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

Holonyms ("vanadium" is a substance of...):

carnotite (a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium)

vanadinite (a mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium)

 Context examples 

Forms of the element vanadium found in foods.

(Dietary Vanadium, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

The researchers started with iron, carbon or vanadium boride for their ability to transfer multiple electrons.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

Cupferron is used as an analytical reagent to separate copper, iron and vanadium from other metals.

(Cupferron, NCI Thesaurus)

Vanadium and sulfur's small size and weight allow them to deliver a high capacity and energy density.

(Creating Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Made Possible with New Discovery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Other multiple-electron-per-molecule batteries the Licht group has introduced, such as the super-iron or coated vanadium boride air battery, also have high storage capacities.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

Scientists improved performance by substituting cobalt oxide with vanadium disulfide (VS2).

(Creating Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Made Possible with New Discovery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Molten" refers to the electrolyte, which is mixed with reactants for iron, carbon or vanadium boride, then heated until the mixture becomes liquid.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

The team determined that lithium insertion caused an asymmetry in the spacing between vanadium atoms, known as Peierls distortion, which was responsible for the breakup of the VS2 flakes.

(Creating Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Made Possible with New Discovery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Molten air batteries made with iron, carbon or vanadium boride can store three, four and 11 electrons per molecule respectively, giving them 20 to 50 times the storage capacity of a lithium-ion battery, which is only able to store one electron per molecule of lithium.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)