War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
- Vanadium (Wikipedia)
Vanadium is a chemical element; it has symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer (passivation) somewhat stabilizes the free metal against further oxidation.