amalgamation

(noun)

The process of merging or consolidating.

Related Terms

Examples of amalgamation 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.