dental amalgam English

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What does dental amalgam mean?

dental amalgam

— noun (= amalgam) 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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