sodium
UK/ˈsəʊ.di.əm/
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British/ˈsəw.dɪj.əm/
sodium noun: 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.
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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.
- An atom of this element.
- Employing sodium.
- 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.1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48
sodium meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sodium in Hindi
- reactive metal
- क्षारातु kṣārātu, सोडियम soḍiyam
sodium in Tamil
- reactive metal
- உவர்மம் uvarmam, சோடியம் cōṭiyam
sodium in Marathi
- reactive metal
- सोडियम soḍiyam
sodium in Urdu
- reactive metal
- سوڈیم soḍiyam
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- sodium in Bengali
- সোডিয়াম śōḍiẏam
- sodium in Telugu
- సోడియమ్ sōḍiyam
- sodium in Malayalam
- സോഡിയം sōḍiyaṁ
- sodium in Kannada
- ಸೋಡಿಯಮ್ sōḍiyam
- sodium in Punjabi
- ਸੋਡੀਅਮ soḍīama
- sodium in Gujarati
- ક્ષારાતુ kṣārātu
- sodium in Sanskrit
- विक्षार vikṣāra
- sodium in Pashto
- سوډیم
- sodium in Tagalog
- sodyo
- sodium in Arabic
- صُودِيُوم ṣūdiyūm
- sodium in Malay
- natrium
- sodium in Indonesian
- natrium
- sodium in Persian
- سدیم sodiyom
- sodium in Thai
- โซเดียม soo-dîiam
- sodium in Vietnamese
- natri, chất muối
- sodium in Myanmar
- ဆိုဒီယမ် hcuidiyam
- Dhivehi
- ސޯޑިއަމް sōḍiam̊
Examples of sodium in a sentence
- The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
- This reaction substitutes a potassium for a sodium.
- The excipient of Abraxane is human albumin solution containing albumin, sodium, sodium caprylate and N-acetyl tryptophanate.
Synonyms of sodium
Forms of sodium
| plural | sodiums |
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Origin of sodium
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda + -ium.
Words formed from sodium
- 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 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
Phrases with sodium
- sodium lamp
- sodium pump
- sodium soap
- sodium alums
- sodium lamps
- sodium pumps
- sodium amides
- sodium azides
- sodium iodide
- sodium channel
- sodium citrate
- sodium cocoate
80 more phrasesFewer phrases
- sodium cyanide
- sodium formate
- sodium hydride
- sodium lactate
- sodium nitrate
- sodium nitrite
- sodium oxalate
- sodium palmate
- sodium sorbate
- sodium sulfate
- sodium sulfide
- sodium sulfite
- suramin sodium
- sodium acetates
- sodium amalgams
- sodium channels
- sodium chlorate
- sodium chloride
- sodium citrates
- sodium ferulate
- sodium fluoride
- sodium formates
- sodium iopodate
- sodium lactates
- sodium nitrites
- sodium peroxide
- sodium selenite
- sodium silicate
- sodium stearate
- sodium sulfites
- sodium sulphate
- sodium sulphide
- sodium sulphite
- sodium tartrate
- sodium benzoates
- sodium carbonate
- sodium chlorides
- sodium gluconate
- sodium glutamate
- sodium hydroxide
- sodium palmitate
- sodium pentothal
- sodium silicates
- sodium stearates
- sodium sulphites
- sodium tallowate
- sodium carbonates
- sodium dithionate
- sodium glutamates
- sodium thiopental
- sodium vapor lamp
- sodium erythorbate
- sodium picosulfate
- sodium tetraborate
- sodium thiosulfate
- sodium vapor lamps
- sodium vapour lamp
- sodium bicarbonates
- sodium borohydrides
- sodium hypochlorite
- sodium thiosulphate
- sodium metabisulfite
- sodium dehydroacetate
- sodium lauryl sulfate
- sodium metabisulphite
- sodium stibogluconate
- sodium dodecyl sulfate
- sodium lauryl sulphate
- sodium cocoamphoacetate
- sodium hydrogen sulfite
- sodium diphenylphosphide
- sodium hydrogen arsenate
- sodium hydrogen sulphite
- sodium lauroamphoacetate
- sodium hydrogen carbonate
- sodium hydrogen phosphate
- sodium hydrogen carbonates
- sodium aluminium phosphates
- sodium aluminum sulfosilicates
- sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate
Words that rhyme with sodium
Questions about sodium
- What does sodium mean?
- Sodium means 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.
- What is sodium in Hindi?
- Sodium in Hindi is क्षारातु (kṣārātu), सोडियम (soḍiyam). See Sodium meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sodium?
- Sodium is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sodium?
- Sodium is pronounced /ˈsəʊ.di.əm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sodium?
- The plural of sodium is sodiums.
Words near sodium in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sodium (page history and authors); ક્ષારાતુ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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