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sodium

  • noun
  • sōʹdē-əm

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.

Other meanings

  1. attributive Employing sodium.

A kind of

  • metallic element

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