Group 5 element

Group 5 is a group of elements in the periodic table.

Group 5 has vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta) and dubnium (Db).

Group 5 is in the transition metals section.

Group 5 Element Media

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  Andrés Manuel del Río, the discoverer of vanadium

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  Charles Hatchett, the discover of niobium

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  Anders Gustav Ekeberg, the discoverer of tantalum

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  The decavanadate structure

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  Model of [(VO3)n]n− chains in the crystal structure of ammonium metavanadate, NH4VO3. X-ray crystallographic data from Vladimír Syneček and František Hanic (1954). "The crystal structure of ammonium metavanadate". Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 4: 120-129. DOI:10.1007/BF01687750.

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  The Pourbaix diagram for vanadium in water, which shows the redox potentials between various vanadium species in different oxidation states.

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  A very pure sample of niobium pentachloride

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  Ball-and-stick model of niobium pentachloride, which exists as a dimer

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  Relativistic (solid line) and nonrelativistic (dashed line) radial distribution of the 7s valence electrons in dubnium.

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  Relativistic stabilization of the ns orbitals, the destabilization of the (n-1)d orbitals and their spin–orbit splitting for the group 5 elements.