DENTAL AMALGAM

• (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 : amalgam

  The dentist's assistant prepared the amalgam to fill the patient's cavity. -added by naila_inlas

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