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- Title: Mercury Pollution from Dental Amalgam Waste in Trinidad and Tobago (Report)
- Author : Journal of Water Resource and Protection (JWARP)
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Earth Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 202 KB
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1. Introduction An amalgam is an alloy of Mercury and one or more other metals. The amalgam alloy is a combination of solid metals containing mainly particles of silver, tin and copper [1]. Other particles, which are sometimes included, are zinc, palladium, indium and selenium. Dental amalgam is made by mixing liquid mercury with powdered amalgam alloys in a process called "trituration". Trituration of commercial amalgam alloys produces a plastic mass (the "amalgam") that the dentist places in a cavity preparation [2].