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Ash

Ash is:

• The solid residue left after something has burned, usually wood and plant material (such as tobacco).
• Three different kinds of trees; see Ash (tree).
• In Old English, a letter named after the tree; see Æ.
• Rockyy material ejected from a volcano; see Volcanic ash.
• In Egyptian mythology, the hawk-god of the Sahara Desert; see As (god).
• The main hero of the Pokémon television series; see Ash Ketchum.
• A Britpop band; see Ash (band).
• In analytical chemistry, ash is one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials.
• One of the Unix shells that serves as a command-line interface for computers running some variants of the Unix operating system; see Almquist shell.

Ash is also the name of several places in the United Kingdom:

• Ash, New Ash Green, Kent, England
• Ash, Sandwich, Kent, England
• Ash, Somerset, England
• Ash, Surrey, England

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