vanadium

Tungmetal, det 23. grundstof i det periodiske system.
metallet - som i USA hovedsageligt udvindes sammen med uran, anvendes bl.a. til hærdning af stål, eksempelvis i forbindelse med produktion af kernevåben.
Der findes også vanadium i Australien, Canada, Grønland, Kina, Rusland, Sydafrika, Sydkorea, Tjekkiet og i Østrig.
Se også: Atomfysik.

Litteratur

U.S. Geological Survey: Mineral Commodity Summaries: Vanadium. 2010. - 2 s.
- http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/vanadium/mcs-2010-vanad.pdf
Green Justice - Marsha Coleman-Adebayo.
- http://www.archive.org/details/ESCAdebayo
After reporting vanadium poisoning by a U.S. multinational mining corp, high level EPA staffer Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo was harassed racially and sexually. After winning her suit against the U.S. government, she led passage of the No FEAR Act, the first civil rights Act of the 21st century. Hear this story of courage against "green crime". From Radio Ecoshock 120214 19 minutes.
McAdam, Dunlap Jamison: The atomic weight of vanadium . (1910). Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1908.
- http://www.archive.org/details/atomicweightofva00mcadrich
US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places: Guide to Assessing Historic Radium, Uranium, and Vanadium Mining Resources in Montrose and San Miguel Counties, Colorado and Name of Multiple Property Listing Guide to Assessing Historic Mining Resources. Part I+II, 2008. - 136+121 s.
- http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ufo/cultural_resources.html


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