vanadoan

adjective

va·​na·​do·​an

vəˈnādəwən

: containing vanadous vanadium and especially bivalent vanadium

Word History

Etymology

obsolete English vanado-magnetite coulsonite (from English vanad- + magnetite) + English -an

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