comb. form of SODIUM, denoting the presence of that substance or its salts, as sodio-aluminic, -aurous, -hydric, -platinic adjs.; sodio-salicylate.
1868. Watts, Dict. Chem., s.v. Sodium, Sodium occurs as sodio-aluminic fluoride in cryolite.
1868. Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 10), 421. A sodio-aurous hyposulphite … is prepared by mixing the concentrated solutions of auric chloride and sodium hyposulphite. Ibid., 347. A sodiohydric pyrophosphate has been obtained.
1876. Harley, Royle’s Mat. Med., 308. Sodio-platinic chloride … is soluble in water.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 991. Theobromine, in the form of the sodio-salicylate (diuretin), may be substituted for caffein.
