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amalgam

英 [ə'mælgəm] 美[ə'mælɡəm]
  • n. [材] 汞合金,[化工] 汞齐;混合物

英英释意


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"