amalgam
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美[?'m?lɡ?m]
英英釋意
- 1. 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
- 2. a combination or blend of diverse things;
- "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"
