noun
Meaning 1
Industrial-grade sodium carbonate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
soda ash
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noun
Meaning 2
a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sodium carbonate, washing soda, sal soda, soda
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: salt
History
Etymology
So called because formerly obtained from the ashes of sea plants and certain other plants, such as saltwort, especially Soda inermis (syns. Salsola soda, Kali soda).
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: sosa — sodium carbonate
- Chinese Mandarin: 碱面 (jiǎnmiàn) — sodium carbonate
- Dutch: natriumcarbonaat — sodium carbonate
- Dutch: soda — sodium carbonate
- Finnish: sooda — sodium carbonate
- French: carbonate de sodium — sodium carbonate
- German: Soda — sodium carbonate
- Greek: τέφρα σόδας (téfra sódas) — sodium carbonate
- Ancient Greek: νίτρον (nítron) — sodium carbonate
- Japanese: ソーダ灰 (sōda-hai) — sodium carbonate
- Latin: nitrum — sodium carbonate
- Polish: soda — sodium carbonate
- Polish: węglan sodu — sodium carbonate
- Romanian: sodă calcinată — sodium carbonate
- Romanian: carbonat de sodiu anhidru — sodium carbonate
- Swedish: kristallsoda — sodium carbonate