amalgam

Examples of amalgam in the following topics:

• Mercury

  • Mercury dissolves to form amalgams with gold, zinc, and many other metals.
  • Sodium amalgam is a common reducing agent in organic synthesis, and it is also used in high-pressure sodium lamps.
  • Mercury readily combines with aluminium to form a mercury-aluminium amalgam when the two pure metals come into contact.
  • For this reason, mercury is not allowed aboard an aircraft under most circumstances because of the risk in forming an amalgam with exposed aluminium parts.
  • Mercury is still used in scientific research and as amalgam material for dental restoration.

• Alloys

  • Examples of alloys include materials such as brass, pewter, phosphor bronze, amalgam, and steel.
  • Examples of alloys include materials such as brass, pewter, phosphor bronze, amalgam, and steel.

• Resource Control

  • De Beers Consolidated Mines were founded in 1888 in South Africa as an amalgamation of a number of individual diamond mining operations.

• The "Era of Good Feelings"

  • His great disadvantage, however, was that amalgamation deprived him of appealing to Republican solidarity that would have cleared the way for passage of his programs in Congress.

• The End of Affirmative Action?

  • The idea of the Melting pot is a metaphor that implies that all the immigrant cultures are mixed and amalgamated without state intervention

• Art of the Persian Empire

  • Gold chariot from Oxus Treasure, amalgamated from fragments of other objects in the trove

• Mughal Empire

  • Most notable among their contributions to the culture of the Indian subcontinent were Mughal architecture and Mughal painting , both of which were an amalgam of Persian and Turkic styles with local styles.

• Resolving Disagreements

  • The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America made arbitration a central element of the Protocol of Peace it negotiated with garment manufacturers in the second decade of the twentieth century.

• Consolidation Strategy

  • Consolidation (or amalgamation) is the act of merging two or more organizations into one.

• Workers Organize

  • In the riots of 1892 at Carnegie's steel works in Homestead, Pennsylvania , a group of 300 Pinkerton detectives , whom the company had hired to break a bitter strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, were fired upon by strikers and 10 were killed.