dental amalgam

1. 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

   Synonymsamalgam

   Broaderalloy

Questions about dental amalgam

What does dental amalgam mean?

dental amalgam means "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".

What is another word for dental amalgam?

Close synonyms include amalgam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dental amalgam a common word?