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the cooled confession of a fire that already said everything it needed to
means A small fragment of partly burned material left after a fire, no longer flaming but not yet ash.
from From Old English 'sinder,' meaning slag or dross from smelting — the gritty leftovers of metalwork. The modern spelling with a 'c' came from a mix-up with the unrelated French 'cendre' (ash, from Latin 'cinis'), which nudged the old 's' word into looking French. So the spelling tells a little lie: 'cinder' looks like it descends from Latin, but it's really a stubborn Germanic word wearing a borrowed coat.
- not ash
- Cinders are partially burned, still solid; ash is fully spent
- can reignite
- Glowing cinders carry enough heat to restart a blaze
- cinder cones
- Whole volcanoes built from ejected cinder, called scoria
- cellar slang
- Old steam locomotives showered passengers with hot cinders
- path maker
- Cinders once paved running tracks and rough country roads
krakatoa eruption cinders — cinders traveled 3,000 km and circled earth in 13 days during the 1883 explosion
cinderella's fireplace — the specific cinder-covered hearth from the fairy tale where she slept in the brothers grimm version