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DENTAL GOLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dental gold mean?
• DENTAL GOLD (noun)
The noun DENTAL GOLD has 1 sense:
1. an alloy of gold used in dentistry
Familiarity information: DENTAL GOLD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An alloy of gold used in dentistry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("dental gold" 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)
Meronyms (substance of "dental gold"):
atomic number 79; Au; gold (a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia)
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