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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 dental amalgam
      n : 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 [syn:
           amalgam]