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Filings of an alloy of silver and tin. Used to form an amalgam with a small quantity of mercury for stopping teeth

Made:: before 1889

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Filings of an alloy of silver and tin. Used to form an amalgam with a small quantity of mercury for stopping teeth, sold as Smale's Dental Compound

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Category:: Metallurgy

Object Number:: 1889-164/1912

type:: specimen

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credit:: John Percy Collection

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