Usually means: Mercury alloy used for fillings.
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Definitions from WordNet (dental amalgam)

noun:  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


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