Amalgam
nounə'mælgəm
Noun
a combination or blend of diverse things
“his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas”
Type of:Combinationan 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
Type of:AlloyMetal
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