Crossword clues for amalgam
amalgam
- A term of respect encountered around large compound
- Blend of diverse things
- Dental alloy
- A largely masculine activity mostly producing alloy
- Dental filling material
- Alloy of silver and mercury
- Mixture or blend
- Mixture (for dental fillings)
- Filling alloy
- Composite dental filling material
- Cavity-filling alloy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
amalgam \a*mal"gam\ ([.a]*m[a^]l"gam), n. [F. amalgame, prob. fr. L. malagma, Gr. ma`lagma, emollient, plaster, poultice, fr. mala`ssein to make soft, fr. malako`s soft.]
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An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.
Note: Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally.
A mixture or compound of different things.
(Min.) A native compound of mercury and silver.
amalgam \a*mal"gam\, v. t. & i. [Cf. F. amalgamer]
To amalgamate.
--Boyle.
--B. Jonson.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "blend of mercury with another metal; soft mass formed by chemical manipulation," from Old French amalgame or directly from Medieval Latin amalgama, "alloy of mercury (especially with gold or silver)," an alchemists' word, perhaps an alteration of Latin malagma "poultice, plaster," probably from Arabic al-malgham "an emollient poultice or unguent for sores (especially warm)" [Francis Johnson, "A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English"], perhaps from Greek malagma "softening substance," from malassein "to soften," from malakos "soft."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context metallurgy English) An alloy containing mercury 2 A combination of different things vb. (context archaic ambitransitive English) To amalgamate.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: dental amalgam]
a combination or blend of diverse things; "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"
Wikipedia
Dental amalgam is a liquid mercury and metal alloy mixture used to fill cavities caused by tooth decay. Low-copper amalgam commonly consists of mercury (50%), silver (~22–32% ), tin (~14%), copper (~8%) and other trace metals. Dental amalgams were first documented in a Tang Dynasty medical text written by Su Kung in 659, and appeared in Germany in 1528. In the 1800s, amalgam became the dental restorative material of choice due to its low cost, ease of application, strength, and durability.
Recently however, concern for appearance, environmental pollution, health, and the availability of improved, reliable, composite materials diminished its popularity. In particular, concerns about the toxicity of mercury have made its use increasingly controversial.
- Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: A#Amalgam
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Amalgam may refer to:
- Amalgam (chemistry), mercury alloy
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Amalgam (dentistry), material of "silver" tooth fillings
- Bonded amalgam, used in dentistry
- Amalgam Comics, publisher
- Amalgam, Gauteng, South Africa
- Amalgam (Marvel Comics), fictional character in the Marvel Universe
- Amalgam, a fictional organization in Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid
- Maya's Amalgam, comic blog of Maya Zankoul
- Amalgam Digital, an independent record label based in East Boston, Massachusetts
- The Amalgam, a Milky Way-spanning civilization in which a novel and two short stories of Greg Egan are set
Usage examples of "amalgam".
The amalgam was composed of many different metals in the platinum group, the exact recipe of which was impossible to determine, even with current laboratory tests.
Gray pictured the cylinder containing the super-conducting amalgam, how it had levitated.
What if the field around the amalgam affected the tomb, too, like the pan in the experiment.
These ancient alchemists hid the next clue in such a manner that the seeker not only had to solve the riddle, but also had to have a basic understanding of the amalgam and its properties.
We know that once the Landers were on the ground, they came together, kinda merged into larger Amalgam Creatures.
They looked like clusters of pyramidical Amalgam Creatures stuck together into various shapes.
In the Solar System, the Amalgams had focused and directed the gravity beams used to tear up the planetary surfaces and launch them into free space.
Second, the Solar System Amalgams were a few tens of kilometers high at most.
Amalgam Creatures exist elsewhere, therefore giant Amalgams exist here?
Once the worlds are torn up, the Amalgams would merge together and form black box monsters.
I came back to the inn, asked for some large empty bottles, and made the amalgam.
Amalgam of Pohroy, unlike certain other coadunate races, never doubted that the Intervention was full justified.
He accepts the piece, a paper Crick delivered last fall to the Society for Experimental Biology, with the amalgam of trepidation and excitement of asking a pretty wallflower for a dance.
Put less figuratively, well-posed physical questions elicit nonsensical answers from the unhappy amalgam of these two theories.
Nevertheless, with a verbal and gesticular amalgam of Spanish, English, facial expression, and hand signal, the two men agreed on a voyage to Boquichicos, embarking early the following morning.