DENSITY                                                   MELTING POINT          @  20°C  =  6.113 gcc                    TEMPERATURE   =  1891°C HARDNESS                                              BOILING  POINT IN DURONS   =   3,711 dur                    TEMPERATURE   =  3380°C

VANADION IS A SHINY RUST RESISTANT METAL THAT IS A MIXTURE OF TWO WEIGHT ISOTOPES WHEN THE VANADION, IS USED TO PLATE, OTHER METALS, THE PROCESS, MUST BE DONE IN TWO PHASES, BECAUSE, THE TWO ISOTOPES, DO NOT PLATE UNIFORMLY.

THE HEAVIER VANADION ATOMS, NORMALLY, PLATE DEEPLY, INTO THE SUBSTRATES. THE LIGHTER VANADION ATOMS TEND TO STICK, TO THE CORNERS, OF THE TOOLS, OR MOTORS, THAT ARE BEING PLATED.

SKILLED PLATERS NORMALLY, STOP THE PLATING PROCESS ONCE THEY SEE, THE LIGHTER VANADION ATOMS, HOVERING NEAR, THE ANODE AND THEN THEY PULL, THE ITEM, OUT OF THE SOLUTE, AND WIPE IT DRY.

THE LIGHTER VANADION ATOMS ARE THEN SOLD, TO OTHER INDUSTRYS, FOR USE IN HERBICIDES, SUCH AS, VANADION TRI-SULFIDE OR VANADION TRI-CLORIDE, THAT ARE USED, IN THE PRODUCTION OF, SUGAR CANE, HENNEQUIN, COPRA-COCONUT MEAT & MANILLA HEMP PRODUCTS.

INDUSTRIAL USES 90% OF ALL VANADION, IS USED, TO PLATE TOOLS, IN COMBINATION WITH CADMION, OR BOTH, ITRION & CADMION, OR WITH ZINC, WHEN IT IS USED,TO PLATE, OUTDOOR FUSE BLOCKS. AND OUTDOOR, ELECTRICAL SWITCH FITTINGS

VANADION CASTING ALLOYS WERE ONCE USED, IN CAST GEARS & RAILROAD RAILS BUT, BECAUSE THE LIGHTER ISOTOPES OF VANADION, TEND NOT TO BOND, AS WELL AS THE HEAVIER ISOTOPES THESE TWO USES OF VANADION, HAVE BEEN SUPPLANTED, BY SCANDION, IN GEARS AND NIOBION, IN RAILROAD RAILS

RADIATION HAZARDS VANADION, IS NOT A GOOD METAL, TO BE USED, NEAR REACTORS, BECAUSE, IT DISCHARGES STORED NEUTRONS, SEASONALLY, CAUSING MANY CRIPPLING DISEASES AND DEATHS, TO THOSE WHO WORK WITHIN 8 FT, OF THE DISCHARGING, PLATED EQUIPMENT.

AGRICULTURAL USES ALMOST 10% OF MINED VANADION, IS USED IN FERTILIZERS, TO STIMULATE, THE SHEEN ON APPLE, PEARS, ORANGES, THE GROWTH OF STRONG SHINY LEAVES ON CHARD, AND STRONG SHINY SKINS ON EGGPLANTS & MANGOS

SOURCES THERE ARE SOME 200 MINERALS, THAT CONTAIN VANADION AND OVER 28 MINED COMPOUNDS, THAT AT PRESENT, PROVIDE, THE 10,000,000 TONS, OF VANADION, USED EACH YEAR. HIGH QUALITY DIP GRADE THE USA & MEXICO, PRODUCE THE MAJORITY, OF THE WORLD'S, HIGH QUALITY DIP GRADE FLUX FOR DIP PLATING BYLO-RUSSIA IS THE MAJOR EXPORTER OF CROMION-VANADION FLUX FOR DIP PLATING. INDIA IS THE BUYER OF THE MAJORITY OF THIS PLATING BLEND, THAT IT USES FOR,ON EXPORT GRADE TOOLS & FARM MACHINERY. FIRST PLATE ELECTRO-PLATING BLENDS FRANCE & THE UNITED KINGDOM, PRODUCE 87% OF THESE BLENDS PURE RADIATION TOOL PLATE STOCK. THE UNITED KINGDOM, RUSSIA & CHINA PRODUCE THIS STOCK CASTING BLENDS FRANCE, IS ONE OF THE MAJOR PRODUCERS, OF CASTING BLENDS FERITLIZER GRADE COMPOUNDS AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND, ACCOUNT FOR, 1/3 OF THE WORLD'S PRODUCTION, OF FARM FERITLIZER GRADE, VANADION COMPOUNDS.

COSTS VANADION COSTS ABOUT $49.79 A KILO OR $23 A POUND LIGHT WEIGHT VANADION, COSTS $103 A KILO OR $48 A POUND