different between gallium vs sodium

English

Etymology

Named by its discoverer Lecoq, after Latin Gallia (“Gaul”). It was claimed that Lecoq had named the element after himself, since gallus is the Latin translation of the French le coq, but Lecoq denied this in an article of 1877.

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?l'??m, IPA^(key): /??æli?m/

Noun

gallium (uncountable)

2. A chemical element (symbol Ga) with an atomic number of 31; a soft bluish metal.

   Synonym: (name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the then undiscovered element at the position of gallium in his periodic table) eka-aluminium

Derived terms

Translations

Afrikaans

Noun

gallium (uncountable)

1. gallium

Danish

Noun

gallium n (singular definite galliumet, not used in plural form)

1. gallium
   • 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse ?ISBN, page 72

     Gallium er det eneste rene metal, som udvider sig ved størkning.

   • 1879, Tidsskrift for populære fremstillinger af naturvidenskaben

     Krystaller af Gallium dannes forholdsvis let, ...

   • 1920, Fysisk tidsskrift

     ... at ogsaa flydende Gallium er dobbelt saa sammentrykkeligt som det faste, ...

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gallium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.li.?m/
• Hyphenation: gal?li?um

Noun

gallium n (uncountable)

1. gallium (chemical element with atomic number 31) [from 1870s]

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

gallium (genitive galliumi, partitive galliumi or galliumit)

1. gallium

Declension

Finnish

Noun

gallium

1. gallium

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.lj?m/

Noun

gallium m (uncountable)

1. gallium

Descendants

• Lingala: galu

Further reading

• “gallium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???l?ijum]
• Hyphenation: gal?li?um
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

gallium (usually uncountable, plural galliumok)

1. gallium (chemical element)

Declension

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??al.li.um/, [??äl??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??al.li.um/, [???l?ium]

Noun

gallium n (genitive galli?); second declension

1. gallium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• gallium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???????m]

Noun

gallium n

1. (uncountable) gallium
2. A part of gallium

Inflection

Swedish

Noun

gallium n (uncountable)

1. gallium

Declension

English

Etymology

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda +? -ium, "soda" being from Italian soda, which may be from Arabic ???????? (suww?d, “saltwort”) or Arabic ??????????? (suwayd??, “Suaeda”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.d??m/
• (US) enPR: s??d?-?m, IPA^(key): /?so?.di.?m/
• Rhymes: -??di?m

Noun

sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)

2. The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature.

Synonyms

• natrium (rare)

Derived terms

Related terms

• soda

Translations

References

• Sodium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• amphibole
• borax
• Chile saltpeter, Chile saltpetre
• cryolite
• halite
• natron
• salt
• zeolite

Anagrams

• modius, odiums

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.dj?m/

Noun

sodium m (uncountable)

1. sodium

Derived terms

• hydroxyde de sodium

Further reading

• “sodium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).