Definitions for vanadiums

vanadiums va·na·di·um

Spelling: [vuh-ney-dee-uh m]
IPA: /vəˈneɪ di əm/

Vanadiums is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 385 anagrams from letters in vanadiums (aadimnsuv).

Definitions for vanadiums

noun

  1. a rare element occurring in certain minerals and obtained as a light-gray powder with a silvery luster or as a ductile metal: used as an ingredient of steel to toughen it and increase its shock resistance. Symbol: V; atomic weight: 50.942; atomic number: 23; specific gravity: 5.96.

Origin of vanadiums

New Latin (1830) Icelandic Vanad(ís) epithet of Freya (Vana, genitive of Vanir Vanir + dís goddess) + New Latin -ium -ium

Examples for vanadiums

Two-thirds of the world's supply of vanadium comes from Peru, where the mines are under American control.

vanadium is also used in high-speed tool steels, its use materially reducing the amount of tungsten necessary.

A good deal of vanadium alloy is used, and this is made in America.

Yet if it had not been for vanadium steel we should have no Ford cars.

Another use of vanadium is in chrome-vanadium steels for armor-plate and automobiles.

Roscoelite is a vanadium mica from a gold mine at Granite creek, California.

vanadium steel is used throughout the construction of the car.

It is added in the form of ferrovanadium, carrying 35 to 40 per cent of vanadium.

Salts of copper, cerium, and iron are also extensively used, but they are not quite so efficient as vanadium.

vanadium is used mainly in steel, to which it gives great toughness and torsional strength.

Word Value for vanadiums
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14

Words with friends

18

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