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amalgam

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Noun

a combination or blend of diverse things
- his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas

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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amalgam amalgamate amalgamated amalgamation amalgamative amalgamator dental amalgam
Words contain "amalgam" in its definition in English - English (Wordnet) dictionary:
amalgam silver

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