What does amalgam mean?
Amalgam means (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury..
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/əˈmæl.ɡəm/ · noun
(metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury..
[…] nor must we overlook, in quite recent times, the ingenious "Dukedog", a little 4-4-0 (officially 90XX class) whose Victorian lineaments arise from an economical amalgam of obsolete "Duke" and "Bulldog" components.
This was the Ambergate, Nottingham & Boston & Eastern Junction Railway, an amalgam of a number of separate schemes put forward in 1845, which secured its Act on July 16, 1846.
A church where spirit, pain, and joy formed a holy amalgam and were righteously acknowledged out loud.
gold t’amalgam with some six of mercury
[…] I had once occaſion to diſtil in a ſmall Retort ſome Gold amalgamed vvith ſuch a fine and ſubtile Mercury, that being (vvithout the addition of any Salt) put to the Gold in the cold, they preſently grevv hot together.
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Amalgam means (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury..
Common synonyms include alloy, blend, combo, compound.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] nor must we overlook, in quite recent times, the ingenious "Dukedog", a little 4-4-0 (officially 90XX class) whose Victorian lineaments arise from an economical amalgam of obsolete "Duke" and "Bulldog" components.
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