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Meanings of amalgam in English

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amálgama
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amalgama

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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        Usage of amalgam in English
        1
        If her story was true, hers was an exotic amalgam of powers.
        Sons of the Oak
        2
        I guess he's an amalgam of all the different writers I've met.
        The Guardian
        3
        In his hands, he held the control device to ignite the amalgam.
        Map of bones
        4
        He was an amalgam of every damaged soul she had ever met.
        White corridor
        5
        His speech was a bizarre amalgam of Latin phrases and demotic Dublinese.
        The Irish Times
        6
        He's like an amalgam of every neurotic Woody Allen character ever created.
        Reuters
        7
        Six lumps of amalgam about the size of small hens' eggs remained.
        In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado
        8
        The amalgam was then shaped into bones and secured in a cathedral.
        Map of bones
        9
        The music was an amalgam of soul, hip-hop, jazz, gospel and fusion.
        Ebony
        10
        Watson said Labour had always been an amalgam of different traditions.
        The Guardian
        11
        Conclusion: DLB risk factors are an amalgam of those for AD and PD.
        Pubmed
        12
        Sodium amalgam reduces it to acenaphthone; chromic acid oxidizes it to naphthalic acid.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        13
        But it would never be an amalgam; the joints would show.
        South Wind
        14
        He had to take the risk to secure the apparatus and the amalgam.
        Map of bones
        15
        This mercury united with both the gold and the silver, making an amalgam.
        Diggers in the Earth
        16
        Recently amalgam fillings have been used in bone-cavities to supplant grafting.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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