Vanadium(II) oxide

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Vanadium(II) oxide is the inorganic compound with the idealized formula VO. It is one of the several binary vanadium oxides. It adopts a distorted NaCl structure and contains weak V−V metal-to-metal bonds. VO is a semiconductor owing to delocalisation of electrons in the t2g orbitals.

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