Vanadium
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Vanadium is named after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of beauty.
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The SR-71 Blackbird is made primarily of vanadium-titanium alloy. The SR-71 is the fastest plane in the world. 
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Depending on its oxidization state, vanadium takes on a different color. The colors and the oxidization states are as follows: the first is the normal color of vanadium, second is lavender, third is blue, fourth is green, fifth is yellow. This is why Sefström named it after Vanadis.
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The first major use of vanadium-steel alloy, the strongest steel ever made, was on the Model T Ford. It was made completely out of it. 
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