Vanadium(II) oxide is the
inorganic compound
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with the idealized formula VO. It is one of the several binary
vanadium oxide Vanadium oxide may refer to:
* Vanadium(II) oxide (vanadium monoxide), VO
* Vanadium(III) oxide (vanadium sesquioxide ''or'' trioxide), V2O3
* Vanadium(IV) oxide (vanadium dioxide), VO2
* Vanadium(V) oxide (vanadium pentoxide), V2O5
* Vanadium(VI ...
s. It adopts a distorted
NaCl structure
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There are three main varieties o ...
and contains weak V−V metal to metal bonds. VO is a
semiconductor
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owing to delocalisation of electrons in the t
2g orbitals. VO is a
non-stoichiometric compound
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, its composition varying from VO
0.8 to VO
1.3.
Diatomic VO is one of the molecules found in the spectrum of relatively cool M-type stars.
References
Vanadium(II) compounds
Non-stoichiometric compounds
Transition metal oxides
Rock salt crystal structure
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