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amalgam
 
Noun amalgam has 2 senses
  1. amalgam, dental amalgam - 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
    --1 is a kind of alloy, metal
  2. amalgam - a combination or blend of diverse things; "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"
    --2 is a kind of     combination
    Derived form: verb amalgamate1
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