Soda or SODA may refer to:

Chemistry

* Some chemical compounds containing

sodium Sodium is a chemical element with the symbol Na (from Latin ''natrium'') and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal. Sodium is an alkali metal, being in group 1 of the periodic table. Its only stable iso ...

Sodium carbonate Sodium carbonate, , (also known as washing soda, soda ash and soda crystals) is the inorganic compound with the formula Na2CO3 and its various hydrates. All forms are white, odourless, water-soluble salts that yield moderately alkaline solutions ...

, washing soda or soda ash **

Sodium bicarbonate Sodium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: sodium hydrogencarbonate), commonly known as baking soda or bicarbonate of soda, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. It is a salt composed of a sodium cation ( Na+) and a bicarbonate anion ( HCO3−) ...

, baking soda **

Sodium hydroxide Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, is an inorganic compound with the formula NaOH. It is a white solid ionic compound consisting of sodium cations and hydroxide anions . Sodium hydroxide is a highly caustic base and alkali ...

, caustic soda **

Sodium oxide Sodium oxide is a chemical compound with the formula Na2 O. It is used in ceramics and glasses. It is a white solid but the compound is rarely encountered. Instead "sodium oxide" is used to describe components of various materials such as glass ...

, an alkali metal oxide * Soda glass, a common glass made with sodium carbonate or sodium oxide *

Soda lake A soda lake or alkaline lake is a lake on the strongly alkaline side of neutrality, typically with a pH value between 9 and 12. They are characterized by high concentrations of carbonate salts, typically sodium carbonate (and related salt complex ...

, an alternate generic name for a salt lake, with high concentration of sodium carbonates *

Soda lime Soda lime is a mixture of NaOH and CaO chemicals, used in granular form in closed breathing environments, such as general anaesthesia, submarines, rebreathers and recompression chambers, to remove carbon dioxide from breathing gases to prevent CO2 ...

, a mixture of sodium, calcium, and potassium hydroxides *

Soda pulping Soda pulping is a chemical process for making wood pulp with sodium hydroxide as the cooking chemical. In the ''Soda-AQ'' process, anthraquinone (AQ) may be used as a pulping additive to decrease the carbohydrate degradation. The soda process give ...

, a process for paper production using sodium compounds

Computing

SODA (operating system) Odra was a line of computers manufactured in Wrocław, Poland. The name comes from the Odra river that flows through the city of Wrocław. Overview The production started in 1959–1960. Models 1001, 1002, 1003, 1013, 1103, 1204 were of original ...

Service-oriented development of applications In the field of software application development, service-oriented development of applications (or SODA) is a way of producing service-oriented architecture applications. Use of the term SODA was first used by the Gartner research firm. SODA repr ...

Service-oriented device architecture The purpose of service-oriented device architecture (SODA) is to enable devices to be connected to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Currently, developers connect enterprise services to an enterprise service bus (ESB) using the various web se ...

, to enable devices to be connected to a service-oriented architecture *

Service-oriented distributed applications A RESTful programming architecture that allows some services to be run on the client and some on the server. For example, a product can first be released as a browser application and then functionality moved module by module to the client applicat ...

* Simple Object Database Access, an API for database queries *

Soda PDF Soda PDF is a family of applications used to open, view, create, convert, edit, secure and share Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The software was developed by LULU Software, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. History In 2010, shortly af ...

, a family of applications used on .pdf files *

Symposium on Discrete Algorithms The Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) is an academic conference in the fields of algorithm design and discrete mathematics. It is considered to be one of the top conferences for research in algorithms. SODA has been organized a ...

, an annual academic conference in computer science

Entertainment

* ''

Czech Soda Česká soda was a satirical TV show created by Febio for Česká televize. The show was aired between the years 1993 and 1997. Total number of 14 episodes was created plus two New Year's Eve specials and a 1998 full-length picture. Running ti ...

'' (Česká soda), a satirical Czech television show * " Go For Soda", a song by Canadian singer Kim Mitchell * ''Soda'' (comics), a popular Belgian comics series by Philippe Tome and Bruno Gazzotti * ''

Soda Drinker Pro ''Soda Drinker Pro'' is a video game that simulates the act of drinking soda. The game was written by Somerville, Massachusetts resident Will Brierly, and developed and published by American indie studio Snowrunner Games. It was released on April 1 ...

'', a video game that simulates the act of drinking soda * ''

SODA Off-Road Racing ''SODA Off-Road Racing'' is an off-road racing simulation released for both DOS and Windows PCs. The game was based on the SODA series but featured only fantasy vehicles and tracks. The game was developed by Software Allies, a collaboration of c ...

'', a 1997 video game * ''Soda'' (TV series), a French television show *

Soda Pictures Thunderbird Entertainment Group (formerly Thunderbird Films) is a Canadian film and television entertainment company with offices in both Canada and the United States of America. Thunderbird's multiple divisions develop movies and television pr ...

, a UK film distributor *

Soda Stereo Soda Stereo is an Argentine rock band formed in Buenos Aires in 1982 by Gustavo Cerati (lead vocals, guitar), Héctor "Zeta" Bosio (bass) and Carlos Alberto Ficicchia "Charly Alberti" (drums). As the first Hispanic group to achieve mainstream ...

, an Argentine rock band also known as "Soda"

Food and drink

Soft drink A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is a drink that usually contains water (often carbonated), a sweetener, and a natural and/or artificial flavoring. The sweetener may be a sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, a su ...

, a sweetened, carbonated, and usually flavored drink *

Ice cream soda An ice cream float or ice cream soda (also known as a spider in Australia and New Zealand), is a chilled beverage that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water. When root beer and vanilla ic ...

, a dessert dish *

Soda bread Soda bread is a variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate (otherwise known as "baking soda", or in Ireland, "bread soda") is used as a leavening agent instead of the traditional yeast. The i ...

, a variety of quick bread *

Soda cracker A saltine or soda cracker is a thin, usually square cracker usually made from white flour, sometimes yeast (although many are yeast free), and baking soda, with most varieties lightly sprinkled with coarse salt. It has perforations over its surf ...

, or saltine cracker *

Soda water Carbonated water (also known as soda water, sparkling water, fizzy water, club soda, water with gas, in many places as mineral water, or especially in the United States as seltzer or seltzer water) is water containing dissolved carbon dioxide gas, ...

, carbonated water

People with the surname

* Soda (footballer) (1901-unknown), Brazilian footballer *

Chet Soda Yster Charles "Chet" Soda (March 15, 1908 – March 12, 1989) was an Oakland, California businessman who was the first general partner and general manager of the Oakland Raiders, an original franchise in the American Football League (AFL, 1960� ...

(1908–1989), Californian businessman associated with the Oakland Raiders *, Japanese documentary filmmaker *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese manga artist *, retired Japanese footballer

Places

Soda Butte Creek Soda Butte Creek is an approximately long major tributary of the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park. It is named for a now-extinct geyser (Soda Butte) near its mouth. Soda Butte and the creek were named by A. Bart Henderson, a Cooke City m ...

, in Yellowstone National Park *

Soda Creek Soda Creek is a rural subdivision 38 km north of Williams Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Located on the east bank of the Fraser River, Soda Creek was originally the home of the Xat'sull First Nation. Soda Creek Indian Reserve No. 1 is ...

, in Canada * Soda Gulch *

Soda Lakes The Soda Lakes are two lakes located northwest of Fallon, Nevada. They occupy two basaltic maar volcano craters which may have erupted in the last 1500 years. The larger lake, called Soda Lake or Big Soda Lake, is somewhat elongated, stretching i ...

Soda Mountain Wilderness The Soda Mountain Wilderness is a protected wilderness area inside the Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument located in the U.S. state of Oregon adjacent to the California state border. The wilderness area was created by the Omnibus Public Land M ...

Soda Mountains The Soda Mountains are located in the eastern Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California, USA. The range lies to the north of Interstate 15 west of the town of Baker. Geography The range reaches an elevation of at the western end of the r ...

, in the eastern Mojave Desert in California * Soda Springs (disambiguation), several places *

Soda Springs, California (disambiguation) Soda Springs, California may refer to: * Mendocino County: ** Soda Springs (near Boonville), Mendocino County, California ** Soda Springs (near Burbeck), Mendocino County, California *Tuolumne County: ** Soda Springs (Yosemite National Park) * Soda ...

Soda Springs, Idaho Soda Springs is a city in Caribou County, Idaho, United States. Its population was 3,058 at the time of the 2010 census. The city has been the county seat of Caribou County since the county was organized in 1919. In the 1860s, Soda Springs serve ...

, a city in Caribou County, Idaho, United States * Soda, Rajasthan, a village in India

Other uses

* ''

Salsola soda ''Salsola soda'', more commonly known in English as opposite-leaved saltwort, oppositeleaf Russian thistle, or barilla plant, is a small (to 0.7 m tall), annual, succulent shrub that is native to the Mediterranean Basin. It is a halophyte (a sal ...

'', the saltwort plant *

Short-course Off-road Drivers Association The Short-course Off-road Drivers Association (usually abbreviated as SODA) was a short course off-road racing sanctioning body in the United States. History SODA began as a Midwestern United States off-road racing series in the early 1970s. Mos ...

, a former off-road racing sanctioning body in the United States * Sibling of a deaf adult, an acronym in deaf culture for a person with a deaf sibling * Simple Ocean Data Assimilation, a reanalysis project *

Soda gun A soda gun or bar gun is a device used by bars to serve various types of carbonated and non-carbonated drinks. A soda gun has the ability to serve any beverage that is some combination of syrup, water and carbon dioxide. This includes soft drinks ...

, a device used by bars to serve carbonated and non-carbonated drinks * Soda locomotive, a variant of fireless locomotives *

Soda straw A soda straw (or simply straw) is a speleothem in the form of a hollow mineral cylindrical tube. They are also known as tubular stalactites. Soda straws grow in places where water leaches slowly through cracks in rock, such as on the roofs of ca ...

, a cave feature *

Specific oral direct anticoagulant Anticoagulants, commonly known as blood thinners, are chemical substances that prevent or reduce coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time. Some of them occur naturally in blood-eating animals such as leeches and mosquitoes, where the ...

, a type of anticoagulant * Statement of Demonstrated Ability, a document for pilots