Dictionary.com

Popular Searches

 Thesaurus.com

sodamide

American  
[soh-duh-mahyd] / ˈsoʊ dəˌmaɪd /

noun

Chemistry.

  1. sodium amide.

sodamide British  
/ ˈsəʊdəˌmaɪd /

noun

  1. Also called: sodium amide.  a white crystalline compound used as a dehydrating agent, as a chemical reagent, and in making sodium cyanide. Formula: NaNH 2

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of sodamide

First recorded in 1830–40; sod(ium) + amide

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.