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- Amalgamation - n. - The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.
- Amalgamation - n. - The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union.
- Magistral - n. - Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.
- Floured - p. a. - Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.