Vanadium Pentoxide (Noun)
Meaning
Any of various oxyacids of vanadium; known mostly in the form of its salts.
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- Vanadium pentoxide reacts with water to produce vanadic acid, which can be further reacted to form other oxyacids of vanadium.
- A primary application of vanadium pentoxide is in the production of catalysts for sulfuric acid synthesis.
- Sulfate process yields vanadium pentoxide as a co-product during the manufacture of titanium dioxide pigment.
- It takes vanadium pentoxide to catalyze the contact process in H2SO4 production which leads to mass production of sulfuric acid.
- The major industrial use of vanadium pentoxide is as a precursor to vanadium catalysts, which help in the production of the polymer polyvinyl chloride.