Definition of Sodamide

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

Definition of Sodamide

1. Noun. (dated),(chemistry) sodium amide ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sodamide

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sodamide

1. A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sodamide

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sodamide (current term)
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Literary usage of Sodamide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The same substance is also produced when sodamide acte on sodium cyanate, sodium carbonate or carbon dioxide at a low red heat; it is also formed when ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"The hydrogen of the sodamide, and not the sodium, reacts, ... sodamide on treatment with organic substances possessing a weak acid tendency, such as oximes ..."

3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1897)
"The hydrogen of the sodamide, and not the sodium, reacts, ... A series of substitution derivatives of sodamide formed by the replacement of one or both ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1894)
"On strongly heating sodamide it was found not to split up, as alleged, ... It was ascertained, too, that when ammonia gas is passed over sodamide heated to ..."

5. A Systematic Handbook of Volumetric Analysis: Or, The Quantitative by Francis Sutton (1904)
"A new method for the examination of commercial phenols has been described by SB Schryver (JSCI 1899, 553), and is based on the interaction of sodamide and ..."

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