Talk:Vanadium(V) oxide

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How many tons of V2O5 are needed to produce only 1 ton of Ferrovanadium?

Molar mass of V2O5 = 182 g/mol. This produces 2 x 51g = 102 g vanadium metal. Since ferrovanadium contains anywhere from about 35 to 80% vanadium metal the answer to your question has quite a wide range, but roughly speaking (using the above calculation) 1 ton of V2O5 produces about 1 ton of ferrovanadium. Walkerma 16:00, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Liquid crystalline behaviour

An anonymous editor is insisting on including a section on this topic. However, the writing is so specialised as to be incomprehensible to the average reader - my PhD is in organic chemistry, and I don't understand a word of it. I have cleaned up the worst misspellings/grammar, but if this is to stay the editor needs to do the following:

• Explain why this topic is important enough to appear on a general page on V2O5.
• Explain the topic in terms th

333t an undergraduate chemistry student could understand, and a high school student could get the gist of.

• Make the section briefer; currently this section is about as long as the "uses" section. Considering the huge importance of the uses of V2O5, that makes it unbalanced. It might be OK if (say) V2O5 is about to become a major component of all the world's computer monitors, but somehow I don't think that's the case here.

If the above concerns cannot be addressed, then I'm afraid the section will have to be removed again. Wikipedia is not Chemical Reviews, that's what the chemical literature is for. Walkerma 16:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)