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語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsəʊ.dɪəm/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: sōʹdē-əm, IPA: /ˈsoʊ.di.əm/, [ˈsoʊ.ɾi.əm]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈsəʉ.di.əm/, [ˈsəʉ.ɾi.əm], (some speakers) [ˈsɐʉ.ɾi.əm]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈsɐʉ.di.əm/, [ˈsɐʉ.ɾi.əm]
• 韻: -əʊdiəm

名詞

sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)

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.

同意語

• natrium (rare)

派生語

関連する語

• soda

参考

• amphibole
• borax
• Chile saltpeter, Chile saltpetre
• cryolite
• halite
• natron
• salt
• zeolite

参照

• Sodium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table
• “sodium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• modius, odiums