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amalgam

/ə'mælgəm/

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noun
an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
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dental amalgam

type of:
alloy metal
noun
a combination or blend of diverse things
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"his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"

type of:
combination

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