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Amalgamated (1917 automobile), car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp. Amalgamated (organization name) Amalgamation (business), the merge or consolidation of companies; Amalgamation (land), the formal combination of adjoining plots; in some jurisdictions distinct from a merger
Zinc amalgam finds use in organic synthesis (e.g., for the Clemmensen reduction). [3] It is the reducing agent in the Jones reductor, used in analytical chemistry.Formerly the zinc plates of dry batteries were amalgamated with a small amount of mercury to prevent deterioration in storage.
Amalgam filling on first molar. In dentistry, amalgam is an alloy of mercury used to fill teeth cavities. [1] It is made by mixing a combination of liquid mercury and particles of solid metals such as silver, copper or tin.
In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into a few much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting, consolidation refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a group company as consolidated financial statements.
In Canada, the 1990s saw the forced amalgamation of several municipal entities in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec into larger new municipalities. Even in cases where a central city merged with its suburbs, the amalgamated city was legally a new municipality, even if it was given the central city's name and was in effect a defacto annexation by the central city.
A commutative diagram of the amalgamation property.. In the mathematical field of model theory, the amalgamation property is a property of collections of structures that guarantees, under certain conditions, that two structures in the collection can be regarded as substructures of a larger one.
In the business world, amalgamated refers to an organization that has undergone consolidation (also known as amalgamation). Amalgamated organizations may use "amalgamated" in their name to signify that it is the amalgamation of its component companies or trade unions .
An amalgamated name is a name that is formed by combining several previously existing names. These may take the form of an acronym (where only one letter of each name is taken) or a blend (where a large part of each name is taken, such as the first syllable). Amalgamated names are most commonly used for amalgamated businesses, characters and ...