Atomic Symbol: V
Atomic Number: 23
Atomic Weight: 50.9415 g/mol
Isotopes and Abundances: 50V 0.25 %, 51V 99.75 %
1 Atm Melting Point: 1910 °C
1 Atm Boiling Point: 3407 °C
Common Valences: 5+, 4+, 3+, 2+
Ionic Radii: 64 pm (in 3+, 6-fold coordination)
Pauling Electronegativity: 1.63
First Ionization Energy: 6.74 eV
Chondritic (CI) Abundance: 54.6 ppma
Silicate Earth Abundance: 86 ppma
Crustal Abundance: 138 ppmb
Seawater Abundance: ~30–37 nmol/kgc
Core Abundance: ~150 ppmd
aPalme et al. (2014)
bRudnick and Gao (2014)
cBruland et al. (2014)
dMcDonough (2014)
Properties
Vanadium (chemical symbol, V) is a d-block transition metal, silver in color, appearing in the first long period of the periodic table between titanium and chromium. Vanadium has two stable isotopes: 50V and 51V, with atomic abundance of 0.25 % and 99.75 %, respectively. Vanadium has several oxidation forms (between 2+ and 5+). In the lithosphere, V occurs as reducing V(III) form, whereas in...
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Pourret, O., Dia, A. (2016). Vanadium. In: White, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39193-9_272-1
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