DENTAL GOLD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An alloy of gold used in dentistry

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("dental gold" is a kind of...):

alloy; metal (a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten)

Meronyms (substance of "dental gold"):

atomic number 79; Au; gold (a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia)

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