amalgam
英[ə'mælgəm]
美[ə'mælɡəm]
- n. [材] 汞合金，[化工] 汞齐；混合物
英英释意
- 1. 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
- 2. a combination or blend of diverse things;
- "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"