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How did Henry Enfield Roscoe first isolate metallic vanadium?

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The English chemist Henry Enfield Roscoe first isolated metallic vanadium in 1867. He achieved this by performing a hydrogen reduction of vanadium dichloride ( $V C l_{2}$ ).12