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Definition: Dental Amalgam |
Dental AmalgamNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Chemistry | Is an alloy of mercury with silver, tin, copper, and sometime zinc. . . . It is important. . . to differentiate between -- and the amalgam alloy that is. . . marketed as small spherical. . . particles. . . Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | An alloy used in restorative dentistry that contains mercury, silver, tin, copper, and possibly zinc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Dental AmalgamSynonym: amalgam (n). (additional references) |
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Trade | Pakistan | Export of imported goods in their original form is not allowed except for parts obtained from ship breaking, scrapped battery cells, waste dental amalgam, waste exposed x-ray films, items imported against back to back letters of credit and items whose re-export F.O.B price is at least 2.5 percent higher than their C&F price. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dental amalgam | 28 |
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| Language | Translations for "dental amalgam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | amalgame dentaire (dental alloy), amalgame de métaux précieux (precious dental amalgam). (various references) | ||||
German | Edelamalgam (precious dental amalgam). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | entalday amalgamay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-d-e-g-l-l-m-m-n-t" | |
-2 letters: amalgamated. | |
-3 letters: amalgamate, analemmata. | |
-4 letters: gallanted. | |
-5 letters: analemma, magdalen, tallaged. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6E 74 61 6C      41 6D 61 6C 67 61 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000001 01101101 01100001 01101100 01100111 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e n t a l   A m a l g a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006E 0074 0061 006C      0041 006D 0061 006C 0067 0061 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387180866778235796778736779 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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