sodium

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word sodium. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word sodium, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say sodium in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word sodium you have here. The definition of the word sodium will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofsodium, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Chemical element
Na
Previous: neon (Ne)
Next: magnesium (Mg)
Sodium

Etymology

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
  1. 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.
  2. (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

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

References

Anagrams

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Pronunciation

Noun

sodium m (uncountable)

  1. sodium

Derived terms

Further reading