vanadic acid
Noun: A general term for any of several oxygen-containing acids of the element vanadium. These compounds are not typically isolated in their pure acid forms but are primarily known and studied as their salts (vanadates).
The term is used in inorganic chemistry to refer to the acidic compounds formed by vanadium in combination with oxygen and hydrogen. It is most commonly encountered in the context of their derivative salts. * Vanadic acid is formed when vanadium pentoxide dissolves in strong alkali. * The properties of vanadic acid salts are important in industrial catalysis.
- Metavanadic Acid: Refers specifically to an acid with the formula HVO₃ or its polymeric forms.
- Orthovanadic Acid: Refers to the acid H₃VO₄, the parent acid of orthovanadate salts.
- Vanadate (n): A salt or ester of a vanadic acid.
- Vanadium Pentoxide (n): V₂O₅, the primary industrial compound of vanadium, which forms vanadic acids in solution.
- Vanadium oxyacid
This is a technical chemical term. The "acid" forms are often conceptual, as they readily lose water to form oxides or polymerize. The most common practical forms are the various vanadate anions (e.g., VO₄³⁻, VO₃⁻) and their salts.
- any of various oxyacids of vanadium; known mostly in the form of its salts