Ash
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Ash may refer to:
[edit] 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 a volcano
- Ash (analytical chemistry), the compounds that remain after a scientific sample is burned
- Fly ash and bottom ash, products of coal combustion
- The remains of a cadaver after cremation
[edit] Trees
- Ash tree, any tree of the genus Fraxinus, or the wood from those trees
- Mountain Ash, any of several other trees
- Prickly Ash, any of several species of the genus Zanthoxylum
[edit] Science
- Soda ash, a common name for sodium carbonate
- Plasma ashing, a process in semiconductor manufacturing
[edit] Media and entertainment
- Ash Williams, character in the Evil Dead film series
- Ash (ballet) by Peter Martins (1991)
- Ash (comic)
- Ash (band)
- Ash (director), independent filmmaker
- ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, a video game
- Ash Ketchum, in the anime, Pokemon
[edit] Linguistics
- Æ, a letter used in Old English texts
- Near-open front unrounded vowel, the vowel sound represented by the æ symbol
[edit] Companies, organizations and schools
- Action on Smoking and Health, a lobbying group
- 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
- Ash, the robot from Alien
[edit] Places
[edit] In Australia
- Ashburton railway station, Melbourne; station code ASH
[edit] 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
[edit] In the United States
- Ash, Oregon in Douglas County, Oregon
- A community in Brunswick County, North Carolina
[edit] Other meanings
- Ash (god), a figure in Egyptian mythology
- Ash (Aishwarya Rai), one of the nicknames of Indian actress Aishwarya Rai
- 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
- Ash Mountain, several mountains by this name in Canada and the USA

