How to Use vanadium in a Sentence

vanadium

noun

• The vanadium redox flow battery is not a phrase that comes tripping off the tongue.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2013
• The whole set is made from hardened and treated chrome vanadium steel alloy.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 2 June 2021
• The amount of vanadium carbide and proper heat treatment add to a knife’s ability to keep an edge.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• The body and tire levers are made of aluminum, and the other tools are constructed using chrome vanadium steel.
  — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2023
• Today, vanadium is prized for its powerful effect on steel alloys, even in very small amounts.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
• This 6-piece set is made from high-strength chrome vanadium steel, which BullTools claims is rustproof.
  — Jon Langston, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2022
• This helps avoid supply-chain challenges linked with lithium, cobalt or vanadium batteries.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Mar. 2026
• The hub pairs 90 vanadium flow batteries with a three-megawatt solar array.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026
• In addition, the vanadium ions can change their oxidation state during this process as well.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2020
• The researchers then used a chemical process to load the carbon structure with vanadium oxide.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
• But in the future, analysts are expecting a shift in uses of vanadium.
  — Mark Burton, Bloomberg.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Chrome vanadium steel resists corrosion and holds its edge longer than plain HSS bits.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
• The vanadium redox flow battery system in Bonita was the first of its kind to be connected to the state’s grid.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
• Both strontium and vanadium sell for just $25 or less per kilogram, according to the researchers.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2015
• The exception to that rule was vanadium, a metal commonly found in marine fuel oil.
  — WIRED, 21 Nov. 2022
• As ships began using bunker fuel with less vanadium, concentrations of the metal in coastal cities dropped.
  — WIRED, 21 Nov. 2022
• In this study, researchers tested the effects of vanadium on diabetic rats.
  — Mark Jackson, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2021
• His mind drifted back to the disappointment in Sweden, all that vanadium abandoned in the ground.
  — William Ralston, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021
• The perfect recipe for a solid-state battery could very well involve a dash of zirconium, or a sprinkle of vanadium.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022
• It’s made out of industrial-grade chrome-vanadium steel that’s durable enough to withstand the toughest work conditions.
  — James Fitzgerald, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2022
• Why is the Journal so enamored of extracting oil, gas, copper and vanadium?
  — WSJ, 7 May 2017
• These are sessile invertebrates that make use of vanadium in some of their enzymes, thus concentrating it in their bodies.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• An element commonly used as an alloy for steel, vanadium is available in more ample supplies than lithium.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
• Price will be a factor as well—previous flow batteries have tended to use relatively pricey metals such as vanadium.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 14 June 2017
• In the first month, only 11 cars were made since the vehicle was assembled by hand using vanadium alloy steel, wood wheels, and wood lining.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2022
• Researchers gave 100mg of vanadium to rats with diabetes and then observed better blood sugar control in rats than a placebo.
  — Mark Jackson, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2021
• They were then entangled via their polarization, too, by sending them through a crystal of a yttrium-vanadium compound.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2022
• Tests determined that the residue contained metals such as aluminum, barium, chromium, nickel, vanadium and zinc.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• Pala New Energy Metals will invest in cobalt, lithium, vanadium, rare earths, nickel and tin.
  — Fortune, 8 Aug. 2017
• Japanese versions of 420 stainless steels, with vanadium in the alloy for wear resistance.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Mar. 2021