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

Amalgam Sentence Examples

  • Sodium amalgam reduces it to isobutyric acid.

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

  • Of the numerous remedies proposed the most efficacious is perhaps 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.

  • Melsens reconverted this derivative into the original acetic acid by reduction with sodium amalgam.

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