holymoleculesbatman: Vanadium The element is found only in chemically combined form in nature. Vanadium was originally discovered by Andrés Manuel del Río, a Spanish-born Mexican mineralogist, in 1801. Del Río extracted the element from a sample of Mexican “brown lead” ore, later named vanadinite.

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Vanadium

The element is found only in chemically combined form in nature. Vanadium was originally discovered by Andrés Manuel del Río, a Spanish-born Mexican mineralogist, in 1801. Del Río extracted the element from a sample of Mexican “brown lead” ore, later named vanadinite.