AMALGAM
(noun) a combination or blend of diverse things
"his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"
(noun) 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
synonyms : dental amalgamThe dentist's assistant prepared the amalgam to fill the patient's cavity. -added by naila_inlas
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(Tag: Global) amalgum ~ a + mal + gum; imagine that you went to a shopping mall to buy gum to stick few things together.
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Mnemonics for amalgam
(Tag: ) Amalgam , remember balgam (in Hindi).. the yellow sticky fluid that comes out of our mouth when we cough.. Its a mixture of all kinds of weird things - saliva, mucus, etc.
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(Tag: ) AMALGAM<===> मिश्रण (pr. \\mishraN \\ )[Noun] Example:A coalition govt. is an amalgam of many political parties.
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(Tag: ) like chewing gum=amalgum which is mixture of metal to fill in teeth
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