vanadate
Noun
Meaning
A salt of vanadic acid.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHypernyms
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During combustion, vanadium oxidizes and reacts with sodium and sulfur, yielding vanadate compounds with melting points as low as 530 °C, which attack the passivation layer on steel and render it susceptible to corrosion.
The first commercially successful emerald synthesis process was that of Carroll Chatham, likely involving a lithium vanadate flux process, as Chatham's emeralds do not have any water and contain traces of vanadate, molybdenum and vanadium.
The structures of many vanadate compounds have been determined by X-ray crystallography.