Soda
['səʊdə] or ['sodə]
Definition
(n.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
(n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.
Typist: Ora
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Protoxide of sodium.
Typist: Vance
Definition
n. oxide of sodium or its hydrate: the alkali obtained from the ashes of marine vegetables or by decomposing sea-salt: (coll.) soda-water.—ns. Sō′da-ash sodium carbonate; Sō′da-crack′er a biscuit made of flour and water with salt bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar; Sō′da-fount′ain a metal or marble case for holding water charged with carbonic-acid gas.—adj. Sodā′ic pertaining to or containing soda.—ns. Sō′da-lime a mixture of caustic soda and quicklime; Sō′dalite a mineral composed chiefly of soda along with silica alumina and hydrochloric acid; Sō′da-pā′per a paper saturated with sodium carbonate; Sō′da-salt a salt having soda for its base; Sō′da-wa′ter water containing soda charged with carbonic acid; Sō′dium a yellowish-white metal the base of soda.
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Examples
- Mr. Godfrey had some brandy and soda-water, Mr. Franklin took nothing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Add to the solution 7 parts of pure soda, 5 of gum Arabic, and 12 of water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- What are known as the soda-pulp and the sulphite processes are examples of this. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He brought the whiskey in a glass with ice and beside the glass on a tray a small bottle of soda. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- As a result of this, soda was soon manufactured from common salt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Dissolve the sal soda, borax, and sal tartar in the hot water and add the other ingredients. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all this cross-questioning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I take preferably not less than 5 parts by weight of pure boracic acid in crystals, and add thereto 1 part of pure phosphate of soda. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A fire extinguisher is a metal case containing a solution of bicarbonate of soda, and a glass vessel full of strong sulphuric acid. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The strongest washing powder is soda, and this cheap form is as good as any of the more expensive preparations sold under fancy names. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- An enormous quantity of sodium carbonate, or soda, as it is usually called, is needed in the manufacture of glass, soap, bleaching powders, and other commercial products. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She hit me with the pillow and spilled the whiskey and soda. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Gooseberry jam, and the same home-made cake with too much soda in it! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Dissolve 10 parts of soap in 20 of water, and add 3-1/2 parts of soda and one-half part of liquid ammonia and spirit of wine. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Reade, were shown at the London institution, which were described to have been produced by an infusion of galls, and fixed with hyposulphite of soda. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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