vanadium pentoxide
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vanadium pentoxide
n.
A highly toxic yellow to red crystalline powder, V2O5, used as a catalyst in various organic reactions and as a starting material for other vanadium salts. Also called vanadic acid anhydride..
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Noun | 1. | vanadium pentoxide - any of various oxyacids of vanadium; known mostly in the form of its salts oxyacid, oxygen acid - any acid that contains oxygen |
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