Found 2 items, similar to vanadium.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: vanadium vanadium n : a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite [syn: V, atomic number 23]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Vanadium Vanadium \Va*na"di*um\, n. [NL., fr. Icel. Vanad[=i]s, a surname of the Scandinavian goddess Freya.] (Chem.) A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 50.94 (C12=12.000). [1913 Webster +PJC]