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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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊdɪəm/
• (US) enPR: sōʹdē-əm, IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊdiəm/
• Rhymes: -əʊdiəm

Noun

sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)

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
• Albanian: natrium (sq)
• Arabic: صوديوم m (Sódyum)
• Aragonese: sodio m
• Armenian: նատրիում (natrium)
• Asturian: sodiu (ast) m
• Basque: sodioa
• Belarusian: натрый m (nátryj)
• Bengali: লবণক (labanak)
• Breton: natriom m, sodiom m
• Bulgarian: натрий (bg) m (nátrij)
• Catalan: sodi m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:鈉 (zh), 钠 (zh) (nà)

  Min Nan: na

• Cornish: sodyum
• Corsican: sodiu
• Czech: sodík (cs)
• Danish: natrium
• Dhivehi: ސޯޑިއަމް (sōḍiam)
• Dutch: natrium (nl) n
• Esperanto: natrio (eo)
• Estonian: naatrium
• Faroese: natrium
• Finnish: natrium (fi)
• French: sodium (fr) m
• Friulian: sodi
• Galician: sodio (gl) m
• Georgian: ნატრიუმი (natriumi)
• German: Natrium (de) n
• Greek: νάτριο (el) n (nátrio)
• Haitian Creole: sodyòm
• Hawaiian: sodiuma
• Hebrew: נתרן (he) (natran)
• Hindi: क्षारातु (kshaaraatu)
• Hungarian: nátrium (hu)
• Icelandic: natrín (is) n, natríum n
• Ido: natro (io)
• Indonesian: natrium (id)
• Interlingua: sodium, natrium
• Irish: sóidiam (ga)
• Italian: sodio (it) m
• Japanese: ナトリウム (ja) (natoriumu)
• Javanese: natrium
• Kannada: ಸೋಡಿಯಮ್ (sōḍiyam)
• Kashubian: natrijô
• Kazakh: натрий (natrïy)
• Khmer: សូឌីយ៉ូម (soodiiyoom)
• Korean: 나트륨 (ko) (nateuryum), 소듐 (sodyum)
• Kurdish: natrîyûm
• Latin: natrium (la)

• Latvian: nātrijs
• Lingala: sodu
• Lithuanian: natris (lt)
• Lojban: sodna
• Low German: natrium
• Luxembourgish: Natrium
• Macedonian: натриум m (nátrium)
• Malay: natrium
• Malayalam: സോഡിയം (sōḍiyaṁ)
• Maltese: sodju
• Manx: sodjum
• Maori: konutai
• Marathi: सोडियम (sōḍiyam)
• Mongolian: натри (natri)
• Navajo: soodin
• Norman: sôdgium
• Norwegian: natrium (no)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: natrium (nn)

• Novial: natrium
• Occitan: sòdi (oc) m
• Persian: سدیم (fa)
• Polish: sód (pl) m
• Portuguese: sódio (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸੋਡੀਅਮ
• Quechua: natriyu
• Romanian: sodiu (ro) n, natriu (ro) n
• Russian: натрий (ru) m (nátrij)
• Sanskrit: विक्षार (vikshaar)
• Scottish Gaelic: sòidiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: натријум m

  Roman: natrijum m, natrij m (Croatia)

• Sicilian: sodiu (scn)
• Slovak: sodík
• Slovene: natrij (sl)
• Spanish: sodio (es) m
• Swahili: natiri
• Swedish: natrium (sv) n
• Tajik: натрий (natriy)
• Tamil: உவர்மம் (uvarmam)
• Telugu: సోడియమ్ (te) (sōḍiyam)
• Thai: โซเดียม (th) (sōdiam)
• Turkish: sodyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: натрiй m (nátrij)
• Uzbek: натрий (natriy)
• Vietnamese: natri
• Volapük: natrin (vo)
• Walloon: sodiom (wa)
• Welsh: sodiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: natrium (fy) n

See also

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

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Noun

sodium m (uncountable)

1. sodium