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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Coined by Humphry Davy in 1807, from soda + -ium, "soda" being from Italian soda, which may be from Arabic سُوَّاد (suwwād, “saltwort”) or Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʾ, “Suaeda”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊdɪəm/
- (US) enPR: sōʹdē-əm, IPA(key): /ˈsoʊdi.əm/
- Rhymes: -əʊdiəm
Noun[edit]
sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)
- 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[edit]
- natrium (rare)
Derived terms[edit]
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
reactive metal
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “sodium” (US) / “sodium” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sodium m (uncountable)
Further reading[edit]
- “sodium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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