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Ashing vs Gashing - What's the difference?

ashing | gashing |

As nouns the difference between ashing and gashing

is that ashing is (chemistry) an analytic procedure in which a sample is heated in a furnace to leave a residue of ash, either to determine the gross mineral content, or as a preparation for further analysis while gashing is the act of making a gash, or cut.

As a verb gashing is

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ashing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chemistry) An analytic procedure in which a sample is heated in a furnace to leave a residue of ash, either to determine the gross mineral content, or as a preparation for further analysis

    • gashing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a gash, or cut.
  • * 1821 , Theodore Dehon, Sermons, on the Public Means of Grace
    • Nature prompts to the use of them; for the savage of the woods has the song and the ceremonies of his ancestors, and by the gashings and daubings with which he disfigures his form, denotes his tribe.
  • The roughing operation for worm gears.

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