Vanadium is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 203 anagrams from letters in vanadium (aadimnuv).
New Latin (1830) Icelandic Vanad(ís) epithet of Freya (Vana, genitive of Vanir Vanir + dís goddess) + New Latin -ium -ium
A good deal of vanadium alloy is used, and this is made in America.
It is added in the form of ferrovanadium, carrying 35 to 40 per cent of vanadium.
Roscoelite is a vanadium mica from a gold mine at Granite creek, California.
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.
Another use of vanadium is in chrome-vanadium steels for armor-plate and automobiles.
Two-thirds of the world's supply of vanadium comes from Peru, where the mines are under American control.
vanadium steel is used throughout the construction of the car.
Yet if it had not been for vanadium steel we should have no Ford cars.
vanadium is also used in high-speed tool steels, its use materially reducing the amount of tungsten necessary.