Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which amalgamates; one who performs or promotes any process of amalgamation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
amalgamates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies
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"I told him that is a conflict of interest and because of that you should resign," says Tom Hartsfield, 69, a founding amalgamator living in Panguitch, Utah.
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Yet even though the media of this period were profuse, partisan, and scandalously downmarket, they were at the same time a powerful amalgamator that encouraged participatory democracy and forged a sense of national identity.
The Massless Media 2005
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Yet even though the media of this period were profuse, partisan, and scandalously downmarket, they were at the same time a powerful amalgamator that encouraged participatory democracy and forged a sense of national identity.
The Massless Media 2005
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Under a co-operative system all that each individual mine would require would be a qualified, practical miner capable of opening and securing the ground in a miner-like manner, and a good working engineer; and in gold-mining, where the gold is free in its matrix, a professional amalgamator, or lixiviator.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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Some seventeen years since I was engaged on the construction of a dry amalgamator in which sublimated mercury was passed from a retort through the descending gangue in a vertical cylinder, the material thence falling through an aperture into a revolving settler, the object being to save water on mines in dry country.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The Huntingdon mill is a good crusher and amalgamator where the material to be operated on is comparatively soft, but does not do such good work when the stone is of a hard flinty nature.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The ore-feeder acted as crusher-man, too, the engineer was his own fireman, which, with the battery man and the amalgamator, brought the mill staff down to four, -- but they were the best of our men.
The La Chance Mine Mystery Susan Morrow Jones
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Trade, the great amalgamator, is promoting this end.
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