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amalgam n.汞合金；混合物 (1) 牙医用汞合金给我补牙。(2) 银汞合金被用作牙的填料。(3) 她的个性是许多不同特性的融合。(4) 这种新宗教是迷信和现代科学的混合物。 Use amalgam when the mixture of several things creates something different and larger. If your school puts together a drug prevention task force of police, doctors, teachers, social workers, and students, the task force is an amalgam of local resources. If your band plays a combination of country music and jazz, they play an amalgam of contemporary styles. We can only hope they play it well.

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英 [ə'mælɡəm] 美 [ə'mælɡəm] (1) The dentist used amalgam to fill my teeth.(2) Silver amalgam is used as a dental filling.(3) Her character is an amalgam of many different traits.(4) The new religion is an amalgam of supersitious beliefs and modern science. In science, when you mix a metal with mercury to soften it, you create an amalgam. Otherwise, an amalgam is simply a combination of two or more unlike things into one. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]混合物 Something that is an amalgam of two or more things is a mixture of them.   [oft N of pl-n]2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]（用作补牙材料的）汞齐，汞合金 Amalgam is a mixture of mercury and another metal, usually silver, that is used in dentistry to make fillings.   [oft N n]...amalgam fillings.汞合金填充物

英语单词	amalgam
英美音标	英 [ə'mælɡəm] 美 [ə'mælɡəm]
中文释义	n.汞合金；混合物
英语例句	(1) The dentist used amalgam to fill my teeth. (2) Silver amalgam is used as a dental filling. (3) Her character is an amalgam of many different traits. (4) The new religion is an amalgam of supersitious beliefs and modern science.
中文例句	(1) 牙医用汞合金给我补牙。 (2) 银汞合金被用作牙的填料。 (3) 她的个性是许多不同特性的融合。 (4) 这种新宗教是迷信和现代科学的混合物。
vocabulary简明	In science, when you mix a metal with mercury to soften it, you create an amalgam. Otherwise, an amalgam is simply a combination of two or more unlike things into one.
vocabulary扩展	Use amalgam when the mixture of several things creates something different and larger. If your school puts together a drug prevention task force of police, doctors, teachers, social workers, and students, the task force is an amalgam of local resources. If your band plays a combination of country music and jazz, they play an amalgam of contemporary styles. We can only hope they play it well.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]混合物 Something that is an amalgam of two or more things is a mixture of them. [oft N of pl-n] 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]（用作补牙材料的）汞齐，汞合金 Amalgam is a mixture of mercury and another metal, usually silver, that is used in dentistry to make fillings. [oft N n] ...amalgam fillings. 汞合金填充物

Amalgam Things Mixture Mercury Combination Task Force Play