sodium hydride

1. 1.

   a flammable grey crystalline binary compound (NaH)

   Broaderhydride

Questions about sodium hydride

What does sodium hydride mean?

sodium hydride means "a flammable grey crystalline binary compound (NaH)".

Is sodium hydride a common word?

sodium hydride 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.