Soda or SODA may refer to: *

Soft drink A soft drink (see #Terminology, § Terminology for other names) is a class of non-alcoholic drink, usually (but not necessarily) Carbonated water, carbonated, and typically including added Sweetness, sweetener. Flavors used to be Natural flav ...

, a sweetened, carbonated, and usually flavored drink

Chemistry

* Some chemical compounds containing

sodium Sodium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Na (from Neo-Latin ) and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal. Sodium is an alkali metal, being in group 1 element, group 1 of the peri ...

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

, washing soda or soda ash **

Sodium bicarbonate Sodium bicarbonate ( IUPAC name: sodium hydrogencarbonate), commonly known as baking soda or bicarbonate of soda (or simply “bicarb” especially in the UK) is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. It is a salt composed of a sodium cat ...

, baking soda **

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

, caustic soda ** Sodium oxide, 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 base (chemistry), basic side of neutrality, typically with a pH, pH value between 9 and 12. They are characterized by high concentrations of carbonate salts, typically sodium carbonate (and ...

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

Soda lime Soda lime, a mixture of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and calcium oxide (CaO), is used in granular form within recirculating breathing environments like general anesthesia and its breathing circuit, submarines, rebreathers, and hyperbaric chambers and u ...

, 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 gives ...

, a process for paper production using sodium compounds

Computing

* SODA (operating system) *

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 repre ...

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 ser ...

, to enable devices to be connected to a service-oriented architecture * 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), a satirical Czech television show * ''Soda'' (comics), a popular Belgian comics series by Philippe Tome and Bruno Gazzotti * ''

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 o ...

'', a 1997 video game * ''Soda'' (TV series), a French television show * Soda Pictures, a UK film distributor * Soda Stereo, an Argentine rock band also known as "Soda" * ''Soda'' (album), a 2024 album by The Rubens

Food and drink

, a sweetened, carbonated, and usually flavored drink *

Ice cream soda An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as an ice cream spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage made by adding ice cream to a soft drink or to a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water. When root beer and va ...

, a dessert dish *

Soda bread Soda bread is a variety of quick bread made in many cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate (otherwise known as "baking soda", or in Ireland, "bread soda") is used as a leavening agent instead of yeast. The basic ingredients of soda bread are flo ...

, a variety of quick bread *

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

, or saltine cracker *

Soda water Carbonated water is water containing dissolved carbon dioxide gas, either artificially injected under pressure, or occurring due to natural geological processes. Carbonation causes small bubbles to form, giving the water an effervescent quali ...

, 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 The Brazil national football team (), nicknamed ''Seleção Canarinho'' ...

(1901-unknown), Brazilian footballer *

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

(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 * Soda Mountains, in the eastern Mojave Desert in California * Soda Springs (disambiguation), several places * Soda Springs, California (disambiguation) * Soda Springs, Idaho, a city in Caribou County, Idaho, United States * Soda, Rajasthan, a village in India

Other uses

* ''Soda'' (plant), a plant genus * '' Salsola soda'', 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, a reanalysis project * Soda gun, 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 cylinder (geometry), cylindrical tube. They are also known as tubular stalactites. Soda straws grow in places where water leaches slowly through cracks in rock, such ...

, a cave feature * Specific oral direct anticoagulant, a type of anticoagulant * Statement of Demonstrated Ability, a document for pilots