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Vanadium(II) oxide

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Formula
  
VO

Melting point
  
1,789 °C

Boiling point
  
2,627 °C

Molar mass
  
66.9409 g/mol

Density
  
5.76 g/cm³

Pubchem
  
24411

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Appearance
  
grey solid with metallic lustre

Vanadium(II) oxide, VO, is one of the many oxides of vanadium. VO is a long-lived, electronically neutral reagent chemical. It adopts a distorted NaCl structure and contains weak V-V metal to metal bonds. As shown by band theory, VO is a conductor of electricity due to its partially filled conduction band and delocalisation of electrons in the t2g orbitals. VO is a non-stoichiometric compound, its composition varying from VO0.8 to VO1.3.

References

Vanadium(II) oxide Wikipedia