What is the difference between residue and ash?
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Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
(chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
(legal) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
(mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
The solid remains of a fire.
(chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
(in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
(figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
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(chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing .
* 1919 , Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather'', published in the ''Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association , W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253
* 1981 , Hans Weill, Margaret Turner-Warwick, and Claude Lenfant, eds, Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods'', ''Lung Biology in Health and disease, volume 18 , page 203
* 1989? , Annals of Botany , volume 64, issues 4-6, page 397
* 2010 , S. Suzanne Nielsen, ed, Food Analysis, fourth edition , ISBN 978-1-4419-1477-4, Chapter 12, "Traditional Methods for Mineral Analysis", page 213
To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
(obsolete, mostly used in the past tense) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
* 1847 , H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment'', published in the ''Genesee Farmer , volume 8, page 281
* 1849 , in a lettre to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer , volume V, number 7, pages 227-8
(countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus .
(uncountable) The wood of this tree.
The traditional name for the ae ligature (), as used in Old English.
In chemistry terms the difference between residue and ash
is that residue is the substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process while ash is to reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.As nouns the difference between residue and ash
is that residue is whatever remains after something else has been removed while ash is the solid remains of a fire.As a verb ash is
to reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.As a proper noun Ash is
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* nonresidue * quadratic residue * residual * residuaryAnagrams
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(wikipedia ash)Etymology 1
From (etyl) asshe, from (etyl) ; see it for cognates.Noun
- The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.
- Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.
- Ashes from the fire floated over the street.
- Ash from the fire floated over the street.
- The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.
Derived terms
* Ash Wednesday * ash blonde * ash heap * ash hole * ash pan * ash pit * ash stand * ashcan * ashen * ashtray * ashy * the AshesVerb
(es)- I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath
- The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.
- Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities.
- A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed , and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO3 + Cl ? AgCl). The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.
- Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn
- After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) asshe, from (etyl) ).Noun
- The ash''' trees are dying off due to emerald '''ash borer.
- The woods planted in ash will see a different mix of species.