amalgam

英 [?'m?lg?m] 美[?'m?lɡ?m]
  • n. [材] 汞合金，[化工] 汞齊；混合物

英英釋意

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"