Here is a brief description of vanadium. Image of a sample provided by Advent Research Materials Ltd . Pure vanadium is a greyish silvery metal, and is soft and ductile. It has good corrosion resistance to alkalis, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and salt waters. Industrially, most vanadium produced is used as an additive to improve steels.
Isolation Here is a brief summary of the isolation of vanadium.
Vanadium is available commercially and production of a sample in the laboratory is not normally required. Commercially, routes leading to matallic vanadium as main product are not usually required as enough is produced as byproduct in other processes. Reduction of vanadium pentoxide with calcium, Ca, gives pure vanadium. Many other methodsare also in use. Industrially, most vanadium is used as an additive to improve steels.