sodium

English

Sodium

Chemical element
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	Next: magnesium (Mg)

Etymology

Coined by Humphry Davy in 1807, from soda.

Pronunciation

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• (RP) IPA: /ˈsəʊdɪəm/, SAMPA: /"s@UdI@m/
• (US) enPR: sōʹdē-əm, IPA: /ˈsoʊdiəm/, SAMPA: /"soUdi@m/
• Rhymes: -əʊdiəm

Noun

sodium (uncountable)

Wikipedia

1. A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature, and a chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977.

Synonyms

• natrium (rare)

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun sodium

disodium hydrogen sodium arsenate monosodium Pentothal sodium sodian sodic sodio- sodium-23 sodium aluminium fluoride, sodium aluminum fluoride sodium amalgam sodium Amytal sodium antimonate sodium arsenate sodium arsenide sodium aurate sodium benzoate sodium bicarbonate sodium bisulfite, sodium bisulphite sodium borohydride sodium bromate sodium bromide sodium carbide sodium carbonate sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate sodium chlorate sodium chloride sodium chlorite sodium chromate sodium-cooled sodium dithiophosphate sodium monofluorophosphate sodium fluoride sodium hexafluoroantimonate sodium hexametaphosphate sodium hydride sodium hydrogen carbonate

sodium hydrogen sulfite, sodium hydrogen sulphite sodium hydroxide sodium iodide sodium lamp sodium manganate sodium metaphosphate sodium nitrate sodium orthophosphate sodium oxide sodium Pentothal sodium perborate sodium peroxide sodium perxenate sodium phosphate sodium phosphomolybdate sodium plumbate sodium polysulfide, sodium polysulphide sodium pump sodium pyrophosphate sodium selenide sodium selenite sodium soap sodium stannate sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate sodium sulfide, sodium sulphide sodium terbium borate sodium tetraborate decahydrate sodium tetraborate pentahydrate sodium thiosulfate, sodium thiosulphate sodium trimetaphosphate sodium tripolyphosphate sodium tungstate sodium vapor lamp, sodium vapour lamp sodium zircofluoride stannide of sodium telluret of sodium trisodium

Related terms

• soda

Translations

a reactive metal

Afrikaans: natrium (af) Albanian: natrium (sq) Arabic: صوديوم (ar) (Sódyum) m. Armenian: նատրիում (hy) (natrium) Asturian: sodiu (ast) Basque: sodioa (eu) Belarusian: натрый (be) (nátryj) m. Bengali: সোডিয়াম (bn) Bosnian: natrijum (bs) Breton: natriom (br) m., sodiom (br) m. Bulgarian: натрий (bg) (nátrij) m. Catalan: sodi (ca) Chinese: 鈉, 钠 (nà) Mandarin: 钠 (cmn) Min Nan: na (nan) Cornish: sodyum (kw) Corsican: sodiu (co) Croatian: natrij (hr) Czech: sodík (cs) Danish: natrium (da) Dhivehi: ސޯޑިއަމް (dv) Dutch: natrium (nl) n. Esperanto: natrio (eo) Estonian: naatrium (et) Faroese: natrium (fo) Finnish: natrium (fi) French: sodium (fr) m. Friulian: sodi Galician: sodio (gl) Georgian: ნატრიუმი (ka) (natriumi) German: Natrium (de) n. Greek: νάτριο (el) (nátrio) n. Haitian Creole: sodyòm Hawaiian: sodiuma Hebrew: נתרן (he) (natran) Hindi: सोडियम (hi) Hungarian: nátrium (hu) Icelandic: natrín (is) Ido: natro (io) Indonesian: natrium (id) Interlingua: sodium (ia), natrium (ia) Irish: sóidiam (ga) Italian: sodio (it) m. Japanese: ナトリウム (ja) (natoriumu) Javanese: natrium (jv) Kannada: ಸೋಡಿಯಮ್ (kn) Kashubian: natrijô Kazakh: натрий (kk) (nátrii) Korean: 나트륨 (ko) (nateuryum), 소듐 (ko) (sodyum) Kurdish: natrîyûm (ku)

Latin: natrium (la) Latvian: nātrijs (lv) Lingala: sodu (ln) Lithuanian: natris (lt) Lojban: sodna (jbo) Low Saxon: natrium (nds) Luxembourgish: Natrium (lb) Macedonian: натриум (mk) (nátrium) m. Malay: natrium (ms) Malayalam: സോഡിയം (ml) Maltese: sodju Manx: sodjum (gv) Maori: konutai (mi) Marathi: सोडियम (mr) Mongolian: натри (natri) Narom: sôdgium Navajo: soodin Norwegian: natrium (no) Norwegian Nynorsk: natrium (nn) Novial: natrium Occitan: sòdi (oc) Persian: سدیم (fa) Polish: sód (pl) m. Portuguese: sódio (pt) m. Punjabi: ਸੋਡੀਅਮ (pa) Quechua: natriyu (qu) Romanian: sodiu (ro) n., natriu (ro) n. Russian: натрий (ru) (nátrij) m. Scottish Gaelic: sòidiam (gd) Serbian: Cyrillic: натријум (sr) m. Roman: natrijum (sr) m. Sicilian: sodiu (scn) Slovak: sodík (sk) Slovene: natrij (sl) Spanish: sodio (es) m. Swahili: natiri (sw) Swedish: natrium (sv) n. Tajik: натрий (tg) Tamil: சோடியம் (ta), உவர்மம் (ta) (uvarmam) Telugu: సోడియమ్ (te) Thai: โซเดียม (th) (sōdiam) Turkish: sodyum (tr) Ukrainian: натрiй (uk) (nátrij) m. Uzbek: натрий (uz) (natriy) Vietnamese: natri (vi) Volapük: natrin (vo) Walloon: sodiom (wa) Welsh: sodiwm (cy) West Frisian: natrium (fy) n.

External links

For etymology and more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=Na (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author, who has spent a tremendous effort to get them encoded in Unicode)

See also

• amphibole
• borax
• Chile saltpeter, Chile saltpetre
• cryolite
• halite
• natron
• salt
• zeolite

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Noun

sodium m. (usually uncountable)

1. sodium