<prompt> Triturating a dental amalgam will ___.Reduce the size of the alloy particles.Coat the alloy particles with mercury.Reduce the crystal sizes as they form.Dissolve the alloy particles in mercury.  <response>: Triturating mixing the amalgam particle with the mercury is intended to result in coating the particles with a surface of mercury and creating the desirable phases in the set amalgam. All of the alloy particle is not dissolved in the mercury, nor is the size significantly reduced. 