Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sodium bisulfite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English

Syllables: sodi-um bisul-fite
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The mono sodium salt of sulfurous acid, NaHSO₃, used as a food preservative and as a reagent in organic synthesis.

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

sodium bisulphite (alternative)

Synonyms

sodium hydrogen sulfite

Questions

What does sodium bisulfite mean?: The mono sodium salt of sulfurous acid, NaHSO₃, used as a food preservative and as a reagent in organic synthesis.

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