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car·bon·at·ed water       (kär'bə-nā'tĭd)  Pronunciation Key  n.   Effervescent water, usually containing salts, charged under pressure with purified carbon dioxide gas, used as a beverage or mixer. Also called club soda, seltzer, soda, soda water.

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so·da       (sō'də)  Pronunciation Key  n.   Any of various forms of sodium carbonate. Chemically combined sodium. See carbonated water. Chiefly Northeastern U.S., Eastern Missouri, & Southwestern Illinois See soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic. See carbonated water. Chiefly Northeastern U.S., Eastern Missouri, & Southwestern Illinois See soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic. A refreshment made from carbonated water, ice cream, and usually a flavoring. Games The card turned face up at the beginning of faro. [Middle English sode, soda, saltwort, soda, from Old Italian soda, perhaps from Arabic suwayd, soda, soda-plant or suwayda, type of saltwort; see šwd in Semitic roots.]

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soft drink   n.   In both senses also called soda pop; also called regionally cold drink, drink, pop1, soda, soda water, tonic. A nonalcoholic, flavored, carbonated beverage, usually commercially prepared and sold in bottles or cans. A serving of this beverage. See Regional Note at tonic.

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soda
noun
1.	a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper [syn: sodium carbonate]
2.	a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring; "in New England they call sodas tonics" [syn: pop]

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soda so·da (sō'də)
n.

1. Any of various forms of sodium carbonate.
2. Chemically combined sodium.

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SODA
Symbolic Optimum DEUCE Assembly Program.
The symbolic assembler for a one-level storage virtual machine for the English ELectric DEUCE.
["SODA Manual of Operation", R. C. Brigham and C. G. Bell, School of Elec Eng, U New S Wales, Sydney, NSW (1958)].
(1994-11-04)

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Soda Springs, CA Zip code(s): 95728

Soda Springs, ID (city, FIPS 75195) Location: 42.65859 N, 111.58551 W
Population (1990): 3111 (1244 housing units)
Area: 11.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 83276

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Soda

So"da\, n. [It., soda, in OIt., ashes used in making glass, fr. L. solida, fem. of solidus solid; solida having probably been a name of glasswort. See Solid.] (Chem.) (a) Sodium oxide or hydroxide. (b) 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 formerly obtained from the ashes of sea plants and certain other plants, as saltwort (Salsola). See under Sodium.

Soda fountain, an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted with delivery tube, faucets, etc.

Soda lye, a lye consisting essentially of a solution of sodium hydroxide, used in soap making.

Soda niter. See Nitratine.

Soda salts, salts having sodium for the base; specifically, sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts.

Soda waste, the waste material, consisting chiefly of calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc process of soda manufacture; -- called also alkali waste.

Soda water, originally, a beverage consisting of a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate, with some acid to cause effervescence; now, in common usage, a beverage consisting of water highly charged with carbon dioxide (carbonic acid). Fruit sirups, cream, etc., are usually added to give flavor. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

Washing soda, sodium carbonate. [Colloq.]