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Ashing vs Mashing - What's the difference?

ashing | mashing |

As nouns the difference between ashing and mashing

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 mashing is the action of soaking malted barley etc, in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process.

As a verb mashing 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

    • mashing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia mashing) (en noun)
  • The action of soaking malted barley etc., in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process.
  • * 1835 , Robert Dundas Thomson, ?Thomas Thomson, Records of General Science (volume 2, page 459)
    • More hot water is added, and the mashing process repeated, until the grain has been wholly deprived of its saccharine matter, which is generally accomplished by three, or at the most, four mashings
  • Preparing tea (in a teapot).

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