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amalgam
/əˈmælɡəm/ · 7 letters · 4 distinct letters
- 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
- noun
a combination or blend of diverse things
his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas