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Dental materials
Restorative dentistry
Mercury
Alloys
Transition metals
Amalgam
Dental restoration
Dental caries
gold
Corrosion
Palladium
Dental composite

My Name Period 7 DENTAL AMALGAM Dental amalgam?is a?dental?filling material?used?to fill cavities caused by tooth decay. It has been?used?for more than 150 years in hundreds of millions of patients.?Dental amalgam?is a mixture of metals, consisting of liquid mercury (50%), and a powdered alloy composed of silver (~22-32%), tin (~14%), copper (~8%), and traces of indium and palladium. In 1819, a Mercury-based dental amalgam filling was invented?by the English chemist, Bell.

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