Noun: sodium
| Singular | sodium |
| Plural | sodiums |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like sodium
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda + -ium.
Verbs referencing "sodium"
French Nouns
sodium, Romanian Nouns
sodiu, Irish Nouns
sóidiam.