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Ash

Ash is:\n* The solid residue left after something has burned, usually wood and plant material (such as tobacco).\n* In analytical chemistry, ash is one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials.\n* Rocky material ejected from a volcano; see Volcanic ash.\n* A genus of trees (Fraxinus); see Ash tree.\n* In Old English, a letter named after the tree; see Ć.\n* In Egyptian mythology, the hawk-god of the Sahara Desert; see As (god).\n* The main hero of the Pokémon television series; see Ash Ketchum.\n* A Britpop band; see Ash (band).\n* 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.\n* In the compound form Mountain-ash, two other trees; Eucalyptus regnans in Australia, and an old alternative name for Rowans (Sorbus species). Ash is also the name of several places in the United Kingdom:\n* Ash, New Ash Green, Kent, England\n* Ash, Sandwich, Kent, England\n* Ash, Somerset, England\n* Ash, Surrey, England

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