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nouna silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
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- blue the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- salt white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
- soda a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper
- davy English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
- saline an isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water
- huxley English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
- gelignite a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate
- lye a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide
- seconal barbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsions
- hodgkin English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)