An alloy involving mercury.
Formation of an amalgam. The historical report in The Seats and Causes of Diseases Investigated by Anatomy by Giovanni Battista Morgagni invokes it as a supposed way of reducing a swallowed silver coin; this does not establish therapeutic efficacy or safety. [ref]

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