sodium
nounUK /ˈsəʊ.dɪəm/ · CA, US /ˈsoʊ.di.əm/
Etymology Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda + -ium.
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Usually 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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Usually 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:
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- natrium
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163 terms
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