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Vanadium(II) oxide VO is one of the many oxides of vanadium. VO is a long-lived electronically neutral reagent chemical. It adopts a distorted NaCl structure and contains weak V-V metal to metal bonds. As shown by band theory VO is a conductor of electricity due to its partially filled conduction band and delocalisation of electrons in the t2g orbitals. VO is a non-stoichiometric compound its composition varying from VO0.8 to VO1.3.

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IUPAC name
Vanadium(II) oxide

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