Return to the Amalgam Age of Comics:
The Marvel Comics Collection
Kurt Busiek, Keith Giffen
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BHP Billiton is an amalgamated venture of an Australian company Broken Hill Proprietary and a British company Billiton with extensive operations in South Africa. BHP Billiton originated in 2001 and is recognized as the world's largest mining company.
Today's women of substance are a unique amalgamation of beauty and brain. Pursuing high profile career, family responsibilities and the tremendous pressure of motherhood- nothing can stop them from living their lives in their own terms.
Much research is being devoted to gallium alloys as substitutes for mercury dental amalgams, but such compounds have yet to see wide acceptance.
Gallium added in quantities up to 2% in common solders can aid wetting and flow characteristics.
Acheson who called his new material carborundum, the name being an amalgam of carbon and corundum.
In 1930 two of the great needlemaker giants Milward and Hall joined forces under a single holding company, namely Amalgamated Needles and Fish Hooks Limited.
Turquoise is a naturally occurring amalgam stone that exhibits bright color and patterning.
Ormolu can also be cast bronze or brass that is plated (gilded) with a gold and mercury amalgam, giving it a gold-like look. Ormolu is used in frames, chandeliers, candlesticks, and furniture ornamentation.
Alva silver therefore approaches amalgam in its chemical constitution rather than the "kongsbergite" variety of silver, which is also mercury-rich. Additional analysis may also reveal more rare species or possibly new ones from this occurence.
A gilding process introduced in mid 17th century using powdered gold in a mercury amalgam applied to metal and then heated to evaporate the mercury as a very toxic vapour.
Ormulu ...
Mercury easily forms an alloy with gold (known as an "amalgam"). For this reason it was commonly used by the gold diggers to extract gold from crushed rocks and river sediments. The chemical symbol for mercury is Hg, and it has a density of 13.6.
METALLURGY. The art of separating metals from their ores or from impurities; smelting, reducing, refining, amalgamating, alloying, parting, brazing, plating, etc.
Art Deco: A style that originated in Paris, France in the 1910s that incorporated geometric shapes bold colors and angles. The name derives from the 1925 Paris Exposition. Its popularity waned in the 1930s. An amalgamation of many styles including; ...
The possibility exists of this trend transmuting itself to sending wishes from somebody who could not attend; and also of amalgamating with the custom of never going empty hand to somebody's house.(Reminds me of the Magi).
For a substance to be classified as a mineral, it must be a solid, non-liquid substance, and a crystal structure. The term "rock" should not be confused with the term "mineral," as rock is an aggregate amalgamation of one or more minerals, ...
Condensation of the mercury on the highlights of the image resulted in an amalgam. Use if a developing box allowed the photographer to stop development when the image was satisfactory.
 See also: Rough, Metal, Stone, Jewel, Make
  
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