Vanadium

Vanadium, element number 23 with atomic symbol V, is a fairly average transition metal, silver-grey in color, not much unusual about it.

The main source of vanadium is actually from fossil fuels, which oddly enough commonly contain vanadium, which can be purified out of it without using up the actual fuel. There are also vanadium mines in the mid-west of the United States which commonly produce uranium as well, being that they are both present in the mineral carnotite, which is found dispersed in sandstone.

Vanadium doesn't have many uses pure, but like most obscure transition metals, it is a valuable additive to steel alloys, in this case increasing strength, used in stainless steel alloys and steel for cutting tools.

Vanadium compounds find a few uses here and there, one of them, vanadium pentoxide, as an oxidizer in producing sulfuric acid.

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