"My beauty has no bounds. I am named after the Scandinavian goddess of beauty and love, Vanadis. Depending on my state (the charge of my various ions), I can make a rainbow of brilliant and beautiful purple, green, and yellow solution.
Like most transition metlas, my colorful compounds can be used as catalysts (substances that allow chemical reactions to occur more frequently). I am an essential catalyst in the "contact process" that is used to manufactor sulfuric acid, arguably the most important industrial chemical in the world today. I make up part of a crucial steel alloy that was used in Henry Ford's Model-T cars, so without me, there may never have been an auto industry."(Dingle, 36).
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