Assignment No. 13 Group VA and VB

Assignment No.
13 Group VA and VB
Group VA
Elements Chief Sources Industrial Uses
Nitrogen It includes atmospheric It is used to make
precipitation, geological fertilizers, nitric acid,
sources, agricultural nylon, dyes, and
land, livestock and explosives.
poultry operations and
urban waste.
Phosphorus It is a common It is used in the
constituent of manufacture of safety
agricultural fertilizers, matches, pyrotechnics
manure, and organic and incendiary shells. It
wastes in sewage and is also used in steel
industrial effluent. manufacture and in the
production of phosphor
bronze.
Arsenic This is found natural It uses as wood
environment in small preservatives,
quantities of rock, soil, agricultural chemicals,
water and air. It is and applications in the
present in many mining, metallurgical,
different minerals. glass-making, and
semiconductor
industries.
Antimony It is a metalloid which It is used in the
occurs mainly as the electronics industry to
sulphide mineral stibnite make some
in metamorphic deposits semiconductor devices
in granites and such as infrared
limestone. detectors and diodes.
Bismuth The major source of Bismuth compounds are
bismuth is as by-product used as catalysts in the
of refining lead, copper, manufacturing process of
tin, silver and gold ores. synthetic fiber and
rubber. When bismuth is
combined with other
metals such as lead, tin,
iron, and cadmium, it will
form alloys that can be
used in fire detectors
and extinguishers.
Moscovium It is a bombarded atom It is used to make
of americium with ions nihonium. Only few
of calcium in a cyclotron. atoms of moscovium
have ever been made
and they are only used in
scientific study.
Group VB
Elements Chief Sources Industrial Uses
Vanadium It is obtained from ores Vanadium used in high-
as vanadium pentoxide temperature service in
through a variety of the chemical industry
smelting, leaching, and and in other bonding
roasting processes. It is metals. Vanadium
found combined in compounds are used as
various materials, coal catalysts in the contact
and petroleum. Some process for
commercial sources are manufacturing sulfuric
the minerals carnotite, acid.
vanadinite, and
roscoelite.
Niobium The main source of this It is used in alloys
element is the mineral including stainless steel.
columbite. This mineral It improves the strength
also contains tantalum of the alloys, particularly
and the two elements at low temperatures.
are mined together. Alloys containing
Some niobium is also niobium are used in jet
produced as a by- engines and rockets,
product of tin extraction. beams and girders for
buildings and oil rigs, and
oil and gas pipelines.
Tantalum It is chiefly obtained as a It used in the electronics
by-product of tin industry for capacitors
processing although it is and high power resistors.
also mined from the It is also used to make
minerals columbite, alloys to increase
tantalite and samarskite. strength, ductility and
Other tantalum bearing corrosion resistance. The
minerals include metal is used in dental
ferrotantalite, and surgical instruments
manganotantalite and and implants, as it causes
microlite. no immune response.
Dubnium It is produced artificially Only small amounts of
and only small amounts dubnium have ever been
have been made. produced and its
isotopes have very short
half-lives. That is why its
only use is within
scientific research.
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