#amalgamate
- To amalgamate — To combine, dissolve, or alloy a metal with mercury; (figuratively) to mix, blend, fuse, or associate completely different elements, ideas, or feelings in a chaotic or heterogeneous manner.
- Amalgamated — Alloyed or combined with mercury; (in economics) merged, unified, or consolidated into a single corporate or financial body; (figuratively) composed of a confused, heterogeneous, mismatched, or incoherent mixture of diverse elements or ideas.
- Amalgamated variant — Alloyed or combined with mercury through a non-standard method or described via peripheral technical language; (figuratively) fused, blended, or mixed chaotically into a heterogeneous whole.
- To amalgamate — An archaic and regional technical term meaning to amalgamate or treat a precious metal (especially gold or silver) with mercury (quicksilver) in order to separate it from impurities and waste ores during the traditional mining extraction process.