Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dental_amalgam

1 sense of dental amalgam

Sense 1
amalgam, dental amalgam -- (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)
       => alloy, metal -- (a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper")