Definitions for sodium

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sodium so·di·um

Spelling: [soh-dee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈsoʊ di əm/

Sodium is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in sodium (dimosu).

Definitions for sodium

noun

1. Chemistry. a soft, silver-white, metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in moist air, occurring in nature only in the combined state, and used in the synthesis of sodium peroxide, sodium cyanide, and tetraethyllead: a necessary element in the body for the maintenance of normal fluid balance and other physiological functions. Symbol: Na; atomic weight: 22.9898; atomic number: 11; specific gravity: 0.97 at 20°C.
2. Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. any salt of sodium, as sodium chloride or sodium bicarbonate, present in or added to foods or beverages as a seasoning or preservative and used in many pharmaceutical products as an antacid, anticoagulant, or other agent.

Origin of sodium

From New Latin, dating back to 1800-10; See origin at soda, -ium

Examples for sodium

Sports drinksSugar and sodium are good things when it comes to sports drinks!

Other measurements on nutrition labels—calories, fat, sodium—are passive: They simply state how much is in the food.

Oxygen will combine with iron or lead or sodium, but cannot be made to combine with fluorine.

So it was a conversion of sodium chloride into sodium nitrate.

For all intents and purposes, sodium thiopental is now unavailable in the United States.

For the saponification we employ a solution of sodium ethylate in the cold.

It is a gray metal, considerably heavier and harder than sodium.

Salt (or, more specifically, sodium) excess goes by the medical term “hypernatremia.”

For example, Kuwait recently put a limit the allowable amount of sodium in bread to lower blood pressure.

You cannot do this experiment, however, as the sodium does its work so violently that it is dangerous.