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sodium
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English
Etymology
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊ.dɪəm/
- (General American, Canada) enPR: sōʹdē-əm, IPA(key): /ˈsoʊ.di.əm/, [ˈsoʊ.ɾi.əm]
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- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsəʉ.di.əm/, [ˈsəʉ.ɾi.əm], (some speakers) [ˈsɐʉ.ɾi.əm]
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈsɐʉ.di.əm/, [ˈsɐʉ.ɾi.əm]
- Rhymes: -əʊdiəm
Noun
sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)
- The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.990. 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
- natrium (rare)
Derived terms
- calcium sodium polyphosphate
- decasodium
- disodium
- divalproex sodium
- docusate sodium
- dodecasodium
- foscarnet sodium
- glymidine sodium
- hemisodium
- heptasodium
- hexasodium
- hydrogen sodium arsenate
- metam sodium
- metham sodium
- methylsodium
- monosodium
- nonsodium
- octasodium
- organosodium
- pentasodium
- Pentothal sodium
- porfimer sodium
- radiosodium
- riboflavin-5-sodium phosphate
- sesquisodium
- sodian
- sodic
- sodide
- sodiferous
- sodio-
- sodion
- sodium-23
- sodium acetate
- sodium acetate trihydrate
- sodium adsorption ratio
- sodium alum
- sodium aluminium fluoride
- sodium aluminium phosphate
- sodium aluminum fluoride
- sodium aluminum sulfosilicate
- sodium amalgam
- sodium amide
- sodium amidotrizoate
- sodium Amytal
- sodium amytal
- sodium antimonate
- sodium arsenate
- sodium arsenide
- sodium aurate
- sodium azide
- sodium benzoate
- sodium bicarb
- sodium bicarbonate
- sodium bisulfate
- sodium bisulfite
- sodium bisulphate
- sodium bisulphite
- sodium borohydride
- sodium bromate
- sodium bromide
- sodium carbide
- sodium carbonate
- sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate
- sodium channel
- sodium chlorate
- sodium chloride
- sodium chlorite
- sodium chromate
- sodium citrate
- sodium cocoamphoacetate
- sodium cocoate
- sodium-cooled
- sodium cyanide
- sodium dehydroacetate
- sodium diphenylphosphide
- sodium dithiophosphate
- sodium dodecyl sulfate
- sodium erythorbate
- sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate
- sodium ferulate
- sodium fluoride
- sodium formate
- sodium gluconate
- sodium glutamate
- sodium hexafluoroantimonate
- sodium hexametaphosphate
- sodium hydride
- sodium hydrogen arsenate
- sodium hydrogen carbonate
- sodium hydrogen phosphate
- sodium hydrogen sulfite
- sodium hydrogen sulphite
- sodium hydroxide
- sodium hypochlorite
- sodium iodide
- sodium iopodate
- sodium lactate
- sodium lamp
- sodium lauroamphoacetate
- sodium lauryl sulfate
- sodium lauryl sulphate
- sodiumlike
- sodium manganate
- sodium metabisulfite
- sodium metabisulphite
- sodium metaphosphate
- sodium monofluorophosphate
- sodium nitrate
- sodium nitrite
- sodium orthophosphate
- sodium oxide
- sodium palmate
- sodium palmitate
- sodium pentothal
- sodium Pentothal
- sodium perborate
- sodium peroxide
- sodium perxenate
- sodium phosphate
- sodium phosphomolybdate
- sodium picosulfate
- sodium plumbate
- sodium polysulfide
- sodium polysulphide
- sodium-potassium pump
- sodium pump
- sodium pyrophosphate
- sodium selenide
- sodium selenite
- sodium silicate
- sodium soap
- sodium sorbate
- sodium stannate
- sodium stearate
- sodium stibogluconate
- sodium sulfate
- sodium sulfide
- sodium sulfite
- sodium sulphate
- sodium sulphide
- sodium sulphite
- sodium tallowate
- sodium tartrate
- sodium terbium borate
- sodium tetraborate
- sodium tetraborate decahydrate
- sodium tetraborate pentahydrate
- sodium thiopental
- sodium thiosulfate
- sodium thiosulphate
- sodium trimetaphosphate
- sodium tripolyphosphate
- sodium tungstate
- sodium vapor lamp
- sodium vapour lamp
- sodium zircofluoride
- stannide of sodium
- suramin sodium
- telluret of sodium
- tetrasodium
- tridecasodium
- trisodium
Related terms
Translations
reactive metal
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See also
References
- Sodium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table
- “sodium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
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Pronunciation
Noun
sodium m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sodium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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