Ash

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Ash may refer to:

Products of fire, incineration or combustion

• The solid remains of a fire
• Incinerator bottom ash, a form of ash produced in incineration facilities
• Volcanic ash, material ejected from the top of a volcano
• Ash (analytical chemistry), the compounds that remain after a scientific sample is burned
• Fly ash and bottom ash, products of coal combustion
• Wood ash, products of wood combustion

Trees and shrubs

• Ash (tree), Fraxinus, a genus of large trees, originally and most commonly known by this name. The name originated from their ash coloured bark.
• Mountain ash, Sorbus. In Britain the name mountain ash is usually restricted to Sorbus aucuparia while in North America it may be applied to all members of the genus.
• Prickly Ash. Zanthoxylum species may be called Prickly ash, especially Zanthoxylum americanum in North America.
• Eucalyptus species. In Australia, several eucalyptus' species are called ash because they too produce hard, fine-grained timber. The best known of these is the Mountain Ash.

Science

• Soda ash, a common name for sodium carbonate
• Plasma ashing, a process in semiconductor manufacturing

Media and entertainment

• Ash (artist), French graffiti artist
• Ash (band), Northern Irish rock band
• Ash (ballet) by Peter Martins (1991)
• Ash (comic), Comic book about a superhero firefighter
• Ash (director), independent filmmaker
• ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, a video game
• Ash Ketchum, the main protagonist from the Pokémon anime
• Ash Williams, the main protagonist from the Evil Dead horror movie

Linguistics

• Æ, a letter used in Old English texts
• Near-open front unrounded vowel, the vowel sound represented by the æ symbol

Companies, organizations and schools

• Action on Smoking and Health, an anti-smoking charity
• American School of the Hague, a school in the Netherlands
• American Society of Hematology, an American professional organization
• Mesa Airlines, ASH in ICAO code
• Nashua Municipal Airport, ASH in IATA code

People

Places

In Australia

• Ashburton railway station, Melbourne; station code ASH

In the United Kingdom

• Ash, Derbyshire, England
• Ash, Devon, England
• Ash, Surrey, England
• Ash (near Salway), Dorset, England
• Ash (near Stourpaine), Dorset, England
• Ash (near Sandwich), Kent, England
• Ash-cum-Ridley, near Sevenoaks, Kent, England
• Ash (near Taunton), Somerset, England
• Ash (near Yeovil), Somerset, England

In the United States

• Ash, California in Madera County, California
• Ash, Brunswick County, North Carolina
• Ash, Oregon in Douglas County, Oregon

Other meanings

• Ash (Persian food)
• Ash Mountain, several mountains by this name in Canada and the USA
• Ash railway station, a rail station near Guildford in the United Kingdom
• Almquist shell, a command-line interface for computers
• Alt.suicide.holiday, a Usenet newsgroup
• American Shorthair, a breed of cat
• Bisnovat R-4, a missile with the NATO reporting name ASH
• Asymmetric septal hypertrophy
• Dry skin, a key symptom of Xeroderma

See also

• Ashe
• Ashes
• Ashley
• Cinereous (consisting of ashes, ash-coloured or ash-like)

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