Andrea Taroni shares his experience with vanadium — a colourful element with a rich chemistry (and physics!) that is emblematic of all transition metals. Quite why I chose to study chemistry at ...
In 1801, del Rio discovered Vanadium (V), although a French chemist dismissed his discovery claiming he had merely found impure chromium. Believing the French chemist, del Rio accepted his finding. It ...
The Benfield Process is a popular method used for the removal of CO 2 and H 2 S from industrial and petroleum gases. Vanadium pentoxide is added as a corrosion inhibitor and is shown to be most ...