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Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate. Caustic soda, sodium hydroxide. -- Cooking soda, sodium bicarbonate. [Colloq.] -- Sal soda. See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. -- Soda alum (Min.), a mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of alumina and soda. -- Soda ash, crude sodium carbonate; -- so called because…

Pertaining to, or containing, soda. "Sodaic powder." Ure.

color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.

A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.

A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous.

Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

Same as Episodic.

One of the Perissodactyla.

A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.

See Sal soda, under Sal.

plies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

ldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.

y white) in dry weather following rains or irrigation. The basis of these salts is mainly soda with a smaller amount of potash, and usually a little lime and magnesia. Two main classes of alkali are commonly distinguished: black alkali, which may be any alkaline carbonate, but which practically consists of sodium carb…

Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.

Native carbonate of soda; natron.

A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda- lime feldspar, usually labradorite.

d paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.

erties of yeast. -- Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread.