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 ...

** Sodium carbonate, washing soda or soda ash ** Sodium bicarbonate, 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 alkal ...

, 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 compl ...

, 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 preven ...

, 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 origina ...

* Service-oriented development of applications *

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 ...

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

Simple Object Database Access Simple Object Database Access, also known as S.O.D.A. or SODA, is an API for database queries. Database APIs {{software-stub ...

, an API for database queries * Soda PDF, a family of applications used on .pdf files * Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 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 time ...

'' (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'', a video game that simulates the act of drinking soda * '' SODA Off-Road Racing'', 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 mainstrea ...

, an Argentine rock band also known as "Soda"

Food and drink

* Soft drink, 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 ...

, 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 ...

, 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 surfa ...

, 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) Cleobulo Faría (born 2 March 1901, date of death unknown), known as Soda, was a Brazilian footballer. He played in three matches for the Brazil national football team in 1923. He was also part of Brazil's squad for the 1923 South American Champ ...

(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, in Yellowstone National Park * Soda Creek, in Canada * Soda Gulch * Soda Lakes *

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

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, 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 The Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) analysis is an oceanic reanalysis data set consisting of gridded state variables for the global ocean, as well as several derived fields. SODA was developed in the 1990s as a collaborative project between ...

, a reanalysis project * Soda gun, a device used by bars to serve carbonated and non-carbonated drinks *

Soda locomotive Soda locomotives were a variant of fireless locomotives, in which steam was raised in a boiler, expanded through cylinders in the usual way, and then condensed in a tank of caustic soda that surrounded the boiler. Dissolving water in caustic ...

, 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 ...

, 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 they ...

, a type of anticoagulant *

Statement of Demonstrated Ability A Statement of Demonstrated Ability is a statement granted at the discretion of a Federal Air Surgeon to a person who is disqualified from obtaining a pilot's medical certification. It is granted only if the disqualifying condition or disease is st ...

, a document for pilots