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sodium

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Chemical element
Na
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Sodium

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Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda +‎ -ium.

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sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)

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  1. 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.
  2. (attributive) Employing sodium.
    • 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48:
      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.

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sodium m (uncountable)

  1. sodium

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