SODIUM Synonyms

• any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water

• a mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agriculture

• negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

• a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

• white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

• the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

• (of speech) painful or bitter

• add salt to

• sprinkle as if with salt

• add zest or liveliness to

• preserve with salt

• a 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)