Ash

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Ash or ashes are the solid remnants of

• Wood ash
• Products of coal combustion
  • Bottom ash
  • Fly ash
• Cigarette or cigar ash
• Incinerator bottom ash, a form of ash produced in incinerators
• Volcanic ash, ash that consists of fragmented glass, rock, and minerals that appears during an eruption.

Cremation ashes

Cremation ashes, also called cremated remains or "cremains," are the bodily remains left from cremation.^[4] They often take the form of a grey powder resembling coarse sand. While often referred to as ashes, the remains primarily consist of powdered bone fragments due to the cremation process, which eliminates the body's organic materials.^[5][6] People often store these ashes in containers like urns, although they are also sometimes buried or scattered in specific locations.^[7]

See also

• Ash (analytical chemistry)
• Cinereous, consisting of ashes, ash-colored or ash-like
• Potash, a term for many useful potassium salts that traditionally derived from plant ashes, but today are typically mined from underground deposits
• coal, consisting of carbon as ash, and ash can be converted into coal
• carbon, basic component of ashes
• charcoal, carbon residue after heating wood mainly used as traditional fuel

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