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Is that also the case for "natrium?"

Certainly: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/natrium

And those are also mostly the countries using Kalium: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/kalium

Can't forget Wolfram!

It misses Japanese, which uses German for a great many scientific and medical loanwords:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A6%E...

Yep. Natrium is used in Norwegian at least.

German has both of those.

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