sodamide

A solid substance, white when pure, but generally seen of greenish or brownish color, readily fusible, and at a high temperature decomposed into its elements, obtained by passing dry gaseous ammonia over heated metallic sodium. Its composition is NaNH₂. It is used with advantage in the preparation of hydrazoic acid.

A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.

,(chemistry) sodium amide