It is an important carbide stabilizer in making steels. Vanadium foil is used as a bonding agent in cladding titanium to steel. Vanadium pentoxide is used in ceramics and as a catalyst. It is also used in producing a superconductive magnet with a field of 175,000 gauss. Vanadium and its compounds are toxic and should be handled with care.
Ductile vanadium is commercially available.
In the production of aerospace titanium alloys. It is an important carbide stabilizer in making steels. Vanadium foil is used as a bonding agent in cladding titanium to steel. During the 1970s, vanadium alloys were considered for use as cladding material for the fuel in liquid metal cooled fast reactors. However, most development programs involving vanadium for this purpose have been reduced because of insufficient funding.