Vanadates are salts corresponding to oxidation state V of vanadium. The salts are pretty strong oxidizing agents having a standard potential comparable to that of nitric acid. Their structures and nature of species presents in solution have been extensively studied. The results show that in electronic configuration Vanadates show resemblance with phosphate to the extent that none of them is left with any unshared electron and both exist in modifications like Ortho, meta, pare etc. differing essentially in the water content of the acid and also in the extent of polymerization. However an important difference between the two is that whereas for phosphates the rate of interchange of different forms is quite slow, it is quite fast for Vanadates. Hence any form of vanadate when put into solution rapidly comes to an equilibrium common for all. This divergence in further manifested in their behavior towards acids. Increase of acidity in the case of phosphate lead to simpler molecules but for Vanadates as one passes from alkaline to acidic solutions the complexity of the vanadate ion raises leading ultimately to precipitation of (V 2 O 5) in about N/100 acid. On further increase in acidity the precipitate redissolves but now as a cation formulated variously as V. In this respect and in other chemical properties they are closer to chromates.