Sodium Definition
sōdē-əm
noun
A soft, silver-white, metallic chemical element, one of the alkali metals, having a waxlike consistency: it is found in nature only in combined form and is extremely active chemically: symbol, Na; at. no. 11
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature, and a chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- na
- atomic number 11
Other Word Forms of Sodium
Noun
Singular:
sodium
Plural:
sodiumsOrigin of Sodium
-
Coined by Humphry Davy in 1807, from soda.
From Wiktionary
sod(a) –ium
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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