Look up: amalgamation

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   amalgamation
   [n] - the combination of two or more commercial companies
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   amalgamation
   in business,the fusion of one or more lesser companies into a larger one,by any of several means. Category: Economics • the formation of an amalgam. Category: Medicine
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   Amalgamation
   A·mal`ga·ma'tion noun [ Confer French amalgamation .] 1. 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. Ure. 2. The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogene ...
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   amalgamation
   The process of combining mercury with a metal or an alloy to form a new alloy. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   amalgamation
   merger noun the combination of two or more commercial companies
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   amalgamation
   (ә-mal´gә-ma´shәn) trituration (def. 3).
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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. • (n.) The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union.Amalgama...
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   amalgamation
   (from the article `gold processing`) ...of manpower. By 100, up to 40,000 slaves were employed in gold mining in Spain. The advent of Christianity somewhat tempered the demand for gold ... Elemental gold (and silver as well) is soluble in mercury, so that, when particles of the metal are brought into contact with a fresh mercury ... ...
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   amalgamation
   amalgamation, amalgam treatment 1. The treating of precious-metal ores with mercury for the purpose of extracting their values. 2. The mixing of mercury with another metal, or metals, to form an alloy. 3. The process of separating metal from ore by alloying the metal with mercury; formerly used for gold and silver recovery, where it has been superseded by the cyanide process.
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