TABLE OF CONTENTS SYNONYMS: EINECS No. 231-171-1; VENADIO (Spanish)
IDENTIFICATION:
CAS: 7440-62-2; 1314-62-1 (dust, fume)
DOT ID: UN 3285 as vanadium compound, n.o.s.
6.1 (POISONOUS/TOXIC MATERIALS)
ERG Guide: 151
Formula: V
RTECS No: YW1355000
Properties: Lustrous powder, or fused, hard, lumpy solid. Bright white to light gray. Vanadium is a compound that occurs in nature as a white-to-gray metal, and is often found as crystals. Pure vanadium has no odor. Dust can be yellow-orange powder or dark gray flakes. Slightly radioactive. Practically insoluble in water.
Uses: Making alloys; in the form of vanadium oxide is a component in special kinds of steel that is used for automobile parts, springs, and ball bearings.
HEALTH & SAFETY INFORMATION
IDLH: 35 mg[V]/m 3
The Department of Health and Human Services, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have not classified vanadium as to its human carcinogenicity. No human studies are available on the carcinogenicity of vanadium. No increase in tumors was noted in a long-term animal study where the animals were exposed to vanadium in the drinking water.
OSHA Table Z-1-A Air Contaminant as V sO 5 fume and dust.
Exposure to high levels of vanadium can cause harmful health effects. The major effects from breathing high levels of vanadium are on the lungs, throat, and eyes. Workers who breathed it for short and long periods sometimes had lung irritation, coughing, wheezing, chest pain, runny nose, and a...
