amalgam

• “Kors: You wrote Spanglish, arguing that this amalgam is a valid form of expression, not a slumland corruption of two great languages.”

  The Huffington Post: Joshua Kors: Ilan Stavans' Magnum Opus: After 13 Years, 'The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature' Is Here

• “Again, you will see I can repeat this experiment with another substance; for if I take a glass rod, and rub it with a piece of silk covered with what we call amalgam, look at the attraction which it has; how it draws the ball toward it; and then, as before, by quietly rubbing it through the hand, the attraction will be all removed again, to come back by friction with this silk.”

  The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60

• “Also of note is the fact that foods high in sulfur will exacerbate the odor according to Dr. Andrew Cutler who has written a manual on mercury detox from what he calls amalgam illness.”

  Serendip's Exchange -

• “When the amalgam is heated, the mercury vaporizes, leaving the silver.”

  Pozos - Guanajuato

• “Every amalgam is a little different, of course; what unites these writers and separates them from the rest of the "literary" camp is the determinedly slow tempo of their prose.”

  A Reader's Manifesto

• “Three treatises on chemical subjects from Aquinas 'pen have been preserved for us, and it is to him that we are said to owe the use, in the Western world at least, of the word amalgam, which he first employed in describing various chemical methods of metallic combination with mercury that were discovered in the search for the genuine transmutation of metals.”

  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages

• “The compound of gold and quicksilver is a soft white substance known as amalgam, utterly unlike either metal.”

  The Western United States A Geographical Reader

• “For charging the retort, the water-tank is placed on a trolly; and standing upright on a stool inside the tank is placed the piña, or conical mass of silver amalgam, which is held together by being built up on a core-bar fitted with a series of horizontal disks.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884

• “The result of the process is not so much a circulation des élites as a réunion des élites, an amalgam, that is to say, of the two elements.”

  Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy

• “This holds fast whatever gold there may be and makes an amalgam, which is scraped off from time to time, and the quicksilver is driven from the gold by heat.”

  Diggers in the Earth

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