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al-malgham
Arabic · medieval
"a softening substance"
a softening ointment, used in alchemical texts for metal mixtures
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amalgame
Medieval Latin/French · medieval
"a mixture of mercury with another metal"
carried into European alchemical vocabulary for mercury-metal mixtures
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amalgam
English · 1400s
"a mixture or blend of different elements"
settled as the word for any blended mixture
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