Abstract
Amalgam is a word of mongrel (Arabic-Greek) origin, the history of which is obscure. However, it has been in use since at least the twelfth century, and its meaning has been clear in the earliest references, as given by Mellor (1923). Present-day chemists and metallurgists use the word in the same sense as did the early alchemists, that is, as a general term referring to the solution of metals in mercury, or the combination of the metals with mercury.
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