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Ductile vanadium a new engineering material

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Vanadium—discovered in 1801 and used as an alloying element for steel since the early years of this century—was produced in the pure form for the first time in 1927. A semi-commercial process for producing vanadium was not developed until 1950, and today research efforts are being extended to widen the potential market for this new metal.

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  1. Vanadium Corp. of America, Cambridge, Ohio, USA

    T. W. Merrill (Director of Product Research)

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Merrill, T.W. Ductile vanadium a new engineering material. JOM 10, 618–621 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03398251

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