DENTAL AMALGAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dental amalgam mean? 

• DENTAL AMALGAM (noun)
  The noun DENTAL AMALGAM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DENTAL AMALGAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENTAL AMALGAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

amalgam; dental amalgam

Hypernyms ("dental amalgam" is a kind of...):

alloy; metal (a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten)