Phosphate glasses, having composition 50BaO-
xV
2O
5-(50-
x)P
2O
5, (0 猢?#xA0;
x 猢?#xA0;40 mol%), were prepared and characterized. The substitution of the P
2O
5 by V
2O
5 up to 10 mol%, in the binary 50BaO-50P
2O
5 glass entrained an increasing on
Tg; beyond this value a reverse trend was observed. However, spectroscopic investigations revealed a phosphate glass system
depolymerisation by systematic conversion of metaphosphate chains PO
3鈭?/sup> into pyrophosphate P2O74鈭?/sup> and into orthophosphate PO43鈭?/sup>. Indeed, Above 10 mol%V2O5 content, the system was highly depolymerized due to the formation of isolated PO43鈭?/sup> structural units, resulting in poor cross-linking, making the glass system less rigid.The mild steel corrosion inhibition in 1 M HCl by phosphate glass was investigated using electrochemical measurements. The results showed that these glasses act as a corrosion inhibitor in acidic medium and their inhibition efficiencies depend to the V2O5 content in the system. In addition, it is observed that the metaphosphate chains provided a better protection than pyrophosphate P2O74鈭?/sup> and orthophosphate PO43鈭?/sup>.