vanadium pentoxide

noun

Definition of vanadium pentoxide

: a yellowish-red crystalline compound V₂O₅ used especially in glass manufacture and as a catalyst

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Price for vanadium pentoxide fused flake in Rotterdam. — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, "Vanadium Is Used to Strengthen Steel and China Can’t Get Enough of It," 27 Dec. 2018

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The first known use of vanadium pentoxide was in 1869

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