amalgamation, merger, uniting(noun)

the combination of two or more commercial companies

amalgamation(Noun)

The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.

amalgamation(Noun)

The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.

amalgamation(Noun)

The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.

Amalgamation(noun)

the act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury

Amalgamation(noun)

the mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union

Amalgamation

The application of mercury to a metal with which it forms an amalgam, or with which it amalgamates. Battery zincs are amalgamated in two ways. In the immersion method, the plate is dipped into an acid solution of mercuric chloride or nitrate. The latter is best. In the direct application method the plate is first wet all over with dilute acid and a little mercury is dropped upon it and is rubbed over the surface with a rag or, what is better, with a piece of galvanized iron. A very little mercury answers the purpose. The whole surface of the plate should be left as bright as silver. (See Action, Local.)