Ash
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Ash is:
- The solid residue left after something has burned, usually wood and plant material (such as tobacco). It consists mainly of carbonates and bicarbonates of metals in the original organic material - the metals that primarily compose the ash of the analytical chemistry meaning.
- In analytical chemistry, ash is one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials.
- Rocky material ejected from a volcano; see Volcanic ash.
- A genus of trees (Fraxinus); see Ash tree.
- In Old English, a letter named after the tree; see Æ.
- In the International Phonetic Alphabet, lowercase ash (æ) corresponds to the near-open front unrounded vowel.
- In Egyptian mythology, a hawk-god of the Sahara Desert of Libya origin; see Ash (god).
- The main hero of the Pokémon television series; see Ash Ketchum.
- The antihero of the Evil Dead trilogy is named Ash Williams.
- A Britpop band; see Ash (band).
- One of the Unix shells that serves as a command-line interface for computers running some variants of the Unix operating system; see Almquist shell.
- In the compound form Mountain-ash, two other trees; Eucalyptus regnans in Australia, and an old alternative name for Rowans (Sorbus species).
- A common short form for alt.suicide.holiday, a Usenet newsgroup
- The online name for the Webmonkey who runs the weebl and bob site
Ash is also the name of several places in the United Kingdom:
- Ash, New Ash Green, Kent, England
- Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent, England
- Ash, Somerset, England
- Ash, Surrey, England