Amalgam Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-mălgəm
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dental amalgam
Something produced by mixing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. admixture
  2. amalgamation
  3. blend
  4. commixture
  5. fusion
  6. merger
  7. mix
  8. mixture
Antonyms:
  1. separation
  2. division
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Amalgam Sentence Examples

  • Sodium amalgam reduces it to isobutyric acid.

  • The distillate is freed from vanadium by digestion with sodium amalgam.

  • The cell has the electromotive force above stated if the amalgam of cadmium has from 6 to 13 parts of mercury to I of cadmium.

  • The cushions were greased and the amalgam in a state of powder spread over them.

  • Depicting feudalism in the vivid colours of an age at war with feudal institutions, breathing into antique histories the breath of actual life, embracing the romance of Italy and Spain, the mysteries of German legend, the fictions of poetic fancy and the facts of daily life, humours of the moment and abstractions of philosophical speculation, in one homogeneous amalgam instinct with intense vitality, this extraordinary birth of time, with Shakespeare for the master of all ages, left a monument of the Re- naissance unrivalled for pure creative power by any other product of that epoch.

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