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What's left when something says everything it had to say.
means The fine, powdery gray residue left after something has burned completely; also the name of a hardy hardwood tree.
from Two different 'ash' words braided together by sound. The burnt-residue 'ash' comes from Old English æsce, with cousins across the Germanic languages (German Asche, Old Norse aska) and a likely deep root meaning 'to burn' or 'dry up.' The tree-named 'ash' is a separate word, Old English æsc, the timber so prized for spears that the same word sometimes meant the weapon itself.
- forest comeback
- Some seeds only germinate after fire's heat cracks them
- volcanic legacy
- Pompeii's victims preserved as hollow ash molds
- soap ingredient
- Wood ash plus fat makes lye, then soap
- sacred mark
- Ash Wednesday smears mortality on millions of foreheads
- phoenix fuel
- The only address from which a phoenix rises
mount pinatubo — volcano in philippines that erupted in 1991, ejecting 10 million tons of ash into the atmosphere
krakatoa — indonesian volcano whose 1883 eruption produced ash that circled earth in 13 days
mount vesuvius — volcano near naples that buried pompeii in volcanic ash in 79 ad