what does dental amalgam mean?

DENTAL AMALGAM as NOUN

Meaning
- 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
Synonym(s)
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Hypernyms(s) dental amalgam is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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