benzoate of soda

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   a white crystalline salt used as a food preservative and antiseptic

   Synonymssodium benzoate

   Broaderbenzoate

Questions about benzoate of soda

What does benzoate of soda mean?

benzoate of soda means "a white crystalline salt used as a food preservative and antiseptic".

What is another word for benzoate of soda?

Close synonyms include sodium benzoate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is benzoate of soda a common word?

benzoate of soda is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.