單詞
amalgam
英 [?'m?lg?m]
美[?'m?lɡ?m]
基本信息
- n. [材] 汞合金，[化工] 汞齊；混合物
GRE低頻詞暢通詞匯
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"
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