Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sodium sulfite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables: sodi-um -sul-fite
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The sodium salt of sulfurous acid, Na₂SO₃, used as a food preservative, in photography and in many industrial applications.

Inflected Forms

sodium sulfites (plural) sodium sulphite (alternative)

Questions

What does sodium sulfite mean?: The sodium salt of sulfurous acid, Na₂SO₃, used as a food preservative, in photography and in many industrial applications.

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