Sodium

//ˈsəʊ.dɪəm//

"Sodium" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Sodium reacts vigorously and exothermically with water.

Lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium and francium are alkali metals.

Sodium is one of the most abundant elements in the Earth's crust.

Table salt, primarily composed of sodium chloride, can be used both to season and to preserve food.

My great-granduncle's doctor advised him to adopt a low sodium diet.

When choosing mineral water, we should prefer water that is rich in calcium and magnesium, but low in sodium.

Natural mineral water contains calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium as well as nitrate.

Mercury's atmosphere is very thin and is composed of helium and sodium.

Table salt is composed of sodium and chlorine atoms.

Does iron react with sodium?

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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.

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