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oy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenticum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are active poisons. Specific gravity from 5.7 to 5.9. Atomic weight. Symbol As.

Silver ores suitable for treatment by amalgamation with mercury. [Sp. Amer.]

To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.

A zinc-carbon cell in which the zinc (amalgamated) is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid, and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup.

for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean.

One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury.

rd, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.

A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).

d, or opposed to the ship's course. -- To be dead, to die. [Obs.] I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. Chaucer.

In the United States navy, a corps made up of the engineers, which was amalgamated with the line by act of March 3, 1899. It consisted of assistant and passed assistant engineers, ranking with ensigns and lieutenants, chief engineers, ranking from lieutenant to captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore and…

n, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin.

escape from burning buildings. -- Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. -- Fire gilt (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. -- Fire insurance, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a co…

ly granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.

Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver. Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite.

The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.

A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.

lding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment. Raymond.