sodium

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Sodium

Chemical element
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Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)

2. 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: صُودْيُوم‎‎ m (ṣodyum)
• Aragonese: sodio m
• Armenian: նատրիում (hy) (natrium)
• Asturian: sodiu (ast) m
• Basque: sodioa
• Belarusian: на́трый m (nátryj)
• Bengali: লবণক (labanak)
• Breton: natriom m, sodiom m
• Bulgarian: на́трий (bg) m (nátrij)
• Catalan: sodi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈉 (zh), 钠 (zh) (nà)

  Min Nan: na

• Cornish: sodyum
• Corsican: sodiu
• Czech: sodík (cs) m
• Danish: natrium (da) n
• Dhivehi: ސޯޑިއަމް‎‎ (sōḍiam)
• Dutch: natrium (nl) n
• Esperanto: natrio (eo)
• Estonian: naatrium (et)
• Faroese: natrium n
• Finnish: natrium (fi)
• French: sodium (fr) m
• Friulian: sodi
• Galician: sodio (gl) m
• Georgian: ნატრიუმი (naṭriumi)
• 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 (kk) (natrïy)
• Khmer: សូឌីយ៉ូម (soodiiyoom)
• Korean: 나트륨 (ko) (nateuryum), 소듐 (sodyum)
• Kurdish: natrîyûm
• Latin: natrium (la)

• Latvian: nātrijs (lv)
• Lingala: sodu
• Lithuanian: natris (lt)
• Low German: natrium
• Luxembourgish: Natrium
• Macedonian: натриум m (natrium)
• Malay: natrium
• Malayalam: സോഡിയം (sōḍiyaṃ)
• Maltese: sodju
• Manx: sodjum
• Maori: konutai
• Marathi: सोडियम (sōḍiyam)
• Mongolian: натри (mn) (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 (pa) (soḍīama)
• Quechua: natriyu
• Romanian: sodiu (ro) n, natriu (ro) n
• Russian: на́трий (ru) m (nátrij)
• Sanskrit: विक्षार (sa) (vikshaar)
• Scottish Gaelic: sòidiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: натријум m

  Roman: natrijum m, natrij (sh) m (Croatia)

• Sicilian: sodiu (scn)
• Slovak: sodík (sk) m
• Slovene: natrij (sl)
• Spanish: sodio (es) m
• Swahili: natiri, sodiamu
• Swedish: natrium (sv) n
• Tagalog: sodyo
• Tajik: натрий (tg) (natriy)
• Tamil: உவர்மம் (uvarmam)
• Telugu: సోడియమ్ (te) (sōḍiyam)
• Thai: โซเดียม (th) (soo-dîiam)
• Turkish: sodyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: на́трiй m (nátrij)
• Uzbek: natriy (uz), натрий (uz) (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

Anagrams

• modius, odiums

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.djɔm/

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Noun

sodium m (uncountable)

1. sodium

Further reading

• “sodium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).