atomic number 23

1. 1.

   a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite

   SynonymsvanadiumV

   Broadermetallic element

Questions about atomic number 23

What does atomic number 23 mean?

atomic number 23 means "a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite".

What is another word for atomic number 23?

Close synonyms include vanadium, V. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atomic number 23 a common word?

atomic number 23 is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.