Vocabulary : Sodio- to Sofa
Sodio- : A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of sodium or one of its compounds.Sodium : A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravity 0.97.
Sodium sulphate : A salt well known as a catharic under the name of Glauber's salt, which term is properly applied to the hydrate, Na2SO4.10H2O.
Sodomite : An inhabitant of Sodom. ;; One guilty of sodomy.
Sodomitical : Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy.
