General Vanadium, also obsolete vanadium, is a chemical element with the symbol V and the atomic number 23. It is a steel-gray, bluish shimmering transition metal that is very soft in its pure state. In the periodic table, the metal, together with the heavier niobium, tantalum and dubnium, forms the 5th group or vanadium group. Most of the vanadium is used as so-called ferrovanadium in steel production. The addition of vanadium in chrome-vanadium steels leads to an increase in the […]