Amalgam

: This article is about alloys. For the comic book series, see Amalgam Comics.

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An amalgam is any alloy of mercury. Most metals are soluble in mercury, but some (such as iron) are not. Amalgams are commonly used in dental fillings.

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For centuries dentists have been cleaning out decay and creating dental fillings, using filling material such as stone chips, resin, cork, turpentine, gum, lead and gold leaf. The renowned physician Ambroise Par? (1510 – 1590) used lead or cork to fill teeth. Amalgams were the first true standard filling material.

Alloy: An alloy is a combination, either in solution or compound, of two or more elements, which has a combination of at least two metals, and where the resultant material has metallic properties. An alloy with two components is called a binary alloy; one with three is a ternary alloy; one with four is a ...

Mercury: Mercury may mean:...

Soluble: A substance is soluble in a fluid if it dissolves in the fluid....