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DENTAL GOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dental gold mean? 

DENTAL GOLD (noun)
  The noun DENTAL GOLD has 1 sense:

1. an alloy of gold used in dentistryplay

  Familiarity information: DENTAL GOLD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DENTAL GOLD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An alloy of gold used in dentistry

Classified under:

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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