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Golden. -- Dutch gold, Fool's gold, Gold dust, etc. See under Dutch, Dust, etc. -- Gold amalgam, a mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury. -- Gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. -- Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine…

Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.

ed, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.

g a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.

commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravity 0.97. Sodium amalgam, an alloy of sodium and mercury, usually produced as a gray metallic crystalline substance, which is used as a reducing agent, and otherwise. -- Sodium bicarbonate, a white crystalline substance, HNaCO3, with a slight alk…

act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.