Vanadium is element 23, a transition metal of the d block, in group 5, period 4. Its ground-state configuration is [Ar] 3d3 4s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
It was discovered in 1801, by del Rio.
Name origin: Vanadis, an old Norse name for the Scandinavian goddess Freyja.
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