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amalgam
amalgam is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and transitive verberb i in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.
- 2noun
A mixture or compound of different things.
- 3noun
A native compound of mercury and silver.
- 4transitive verberb i
To amalgamate.
- 5noun
a combination or blend of diverse things
"his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"
- 6noun
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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