Emery County Progress | 1909-01-30 | Page 3 | Large Demand for Vanadium

LARGE DEMAND FOR metal a cur os ty ten years age now used by the ton A few years ago the rare metal va nadium was aca icely mentioned it side of classes in chemistry now it uses are u varlo is that n e all have spent much time in devising bet ter and cheaper ways of efti acting it from its ores probably Pio bably its most important use is as a component of steel to which it imparts a wonderful resistance va nadium steel appears to owe its aties partly to the fact that vanadium relieves the steel of its oxygen and nitrogen which weakens it besides this use vanadium is used to prepare indelible inks in bombina alon with tannin and al kalies for the oxidation of aniline in making aniline black to make sulphuric acid by the oxidation of sulphurous acid and in the manufacture of various metallic pig ments it also serves as a coloring agent for ceramics and glassware is a compon ent 0 a newly discovered developer used in photography and has been em aloyed in medicine for the treatment of tuberculosis between 50 and 5 tons yearly are now used and it is worth abou 4 a pound