Rathurue over 4 years ago One tablespoon of shoyu contains an average of 750mg of natrium. So yea, it can create severe health-related problem if you overused it.
NNescio over 4 years ago 279okshap said: Natrium = sodium. Hence symbol Na. In pseudo-Latin, however. This use has deprecated in modern English (it's generally only found in older technical texts).We don't call iron, tin, gold, and mercury as ferrum, stannum, aurum or hydrargyrum, now do we?
Rathurue over 4 years ago NNescio said: In pseudo-Latin, however. This use has deprecated in modern English (it's generally only found in older technical texts). We don't call iron, tin, gold, and mercury as ferrum, stannum, aurum or hydrargyrum, now do we? Dangit, I've revealed my age! *tosses smoke bombs*
SumeragiAkeiko over 4 years ago NNescio said: In pseudo-Latin, however. This use has deprecated in modern English (it's generally only found in older technical texts). We don't call iron, tin, gold, and mercury as ferrum, stannum, aurum or hydrargyrum, now do we? Except in Japan, they do say ナトリウム (Natoryumu, Natrium).
NNescio over 4 years ago SumeragiAkeiko said: Except in Japan, they do say ナトリウム (Natoryumu, Natrium). But we weren't talking in Japanese, were we? (or German/Malay/Indonesian or a few other languages which just borrowed the Neo-Latin word.)
Seika over 4 years ago Indonesian just use "salt" (in their native language). Makes it sound less poisonous. Probably from Indian vocabulary but not derived from Latin.
NNescio over 4 years ago Seika said: Indonesian just use "salt" (in their native language). Makes it sound less poisonous. Probably from Indian vocabulary but not derived from Latin. Garam can also refer to other salts (in the chemistry sense) though.