sodium
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Etymology[edit]
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda + -ium.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊ.dɪəm/
- (US) enPR: sōʹdē-əm, IPA(key): /ˈsoʊ.di.əm/
audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊdiəm
Noun[edit]
sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)
- The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature.
- (attributive) Employing sodium.
- 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48:
- From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
Synonyms[edit]
- natrium (rare)
Derived terms[edit]
- disodium
- hydrogen sodium arsenate
- monosodium
- octasodium
- Pentothal sodium
- sodian
- sodic
- sodio-
- sodium-23
- sodium acetate
- sodium acetate trihydrate
- 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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References[edit]
- Sodium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table
- “sodium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sodium m (uncountable)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “sodium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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