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Origin and history of Na

Na

chemical symbol for sodium, from Latin natrium (see sodium).

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sodium(n.)

metallic alkaline element, 1807, coined by English chemist Humphry Davy from soda + -ium. So called because the element was isolated from caustic soda (sodium hydroxide). The chemical symbol Na is from natrium, the name for the element that had been proposed by Berzelius and coined from natron, a name of a type of soda.

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    quern
    (grain, pepper, mustard, etc.),  Middle English querne, from Old English cweorn "hand-mill, mill," from PIE *gwere-na...
    urn
    water-jar; vessel for the ashes of the dead" (also used as a ballot box and for drawing lots), probably from earlier *urc-na...
    natron
    It is the source of the chemical symbol Na for sodium and the word-forming element natro-, used in the names of minerals...
    hosanna
    from imperative of y-sh- (compare yeshua "salvation, deliverance, welfare," for which see Joshua) + emphatic particle -na...
    us
    PIE *nes- (2), forming oblique cases of the first person plural personal pronoun (source also of Sanskrit nas, Avestan na...
    neither
    Middle English neither, naither, nether, from Old English nawþer, contraction of nahwæþer, literally "not of two," from na...
    Harris
    That place name represents Gaelic na-h-earaidh "that which is higher," in comparison to the lower Lewis....
    metal
    an undecomposable elementary substance having certain recognizable qualities (opacity, conductivity, plasticity, high specific gravity, etc.), mid-13c., from Old French metal "metal; material, substance, stuff" (12c.), from Latin metallum "metal, mineral; mine, quarry," from Gree
    atomic
    "pertaining to atoms," 1670s as a philosophical term (see atomistic); scientific sense dates from 1811, from atom + -ic. Atomic number is attested from 1821; atomic mass is from 1848. Atomic energy is recorded by 1906 in the modern sense (as intra-atomic energy from 1903). March
    number
    c. 1300, "sum, aggregate of a collection," from Anglo-French noumbre, Old French nombre and directly from Latin numerus "a number, quantity," from PIE root *nem- "assign, allot; take." The meaning "written symbol or figure of arithmetic value" is from late 14c. The meaning "singl

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