sodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.dɪəm/
enpr: sōʹdē-əm
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.di.əm/
ipa: [ˈsoʊ.ɾi.əm]
ipa: /ˈsəʉ.di.əm/
ipa: [ˈsəʉ.ɾi.əm]
note: some speakers
ipa: [ˈsɐʉ.ɾi.əm]
ipa: /ˈsɐʉ.di.əm/
ipa: [ˈsɐʉ.ɾi.əm]
rhymes: -əʊdiəm
Forms: form: sodiums
Etymology: Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda + -ium.
Senses: glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48:
glosses: Employing sodium.
Synonyms: word: natrium
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: soda
amphibole
borax
Chile saltpeter
Chile saltpetre
cryolite
halite
natron
salt
zeolite