摘要 |
<p>ROOM TEMPERATURE REACTION OF VANADIUM-BASED ALLOYS WITH HYDROGEN A method of producing a vanadium-based metal hydride which comprises reacting hydrogen gas at a temperature between about 0.degree. and 100.degree.C with a vanadiumbased binary solid solution alloy having a body-centered cubic structure and having a formula V1-xMx, wherein M is a metal selected from the group consisting of manganese, chromium, cobalt, iron, nickel and mixtures thereof and wherein x varies from at least about 2 atom percent up to the solubility limit of cobalt, iron and nickel and up to about 20 mol% of manganese and up to about 40 mol% of chromium in said solid solution alloy is disclosed.</p> |