sodium
noun/ˈsəʊdiəm/
/ˈsəʊdiəm/
[uncountable] (symbol Na)
- a chemical element. Sodium is a soft silver-white metal that is found naturally only in compounds, such as salt.Topics Physics and chemistryc1Oxford Collocations DictionarySodium is used before these nouns:
- salt
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from soda + -ium.Definitions on the go
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