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  • trees were called Meliades while those of ash trees were Meliae. These nymphs ... live in sacred trees such as willows, oak, ash, and thorn trees.Cassandra ...
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  • volcano buried the city under many feet of ash and it was lost for 1,600 ... Thick layers of ash having covered the two towns, they were abandoned ...
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  • ===Ash content=== Ash content reduces the overall activity of activated carbon, and ...
    23 KB (3,406 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
  • the greater Crater Lake area and deposited ash as far east as the northwest ... This ash has since developed a soil type called andisol. Soils in ...
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  • 2,000 km or 1,200 mi away). Heavy volcanic ash falls were observed as far ... sounds. On the morning of April 6, volcanic ash began to fall in East Java ...
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  • from the ingestion (directly or indirectly) of wood ash from CCA timber. (The lethal human dose is approximately 20 grams of ash). Scrap CCA construction ...
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  • out large quantities of scoria, volcanic ash and lava to form a large mountain ... such as lava flows, magma, scoria, volcanic ash, collapses and side eruptions ...
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  • consisting of volatile chemicals and ash. It is soft, brittle, lightweight ... material and usually produces far less ash than briquettes. ...
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  • *Le Fresne ('The Ash Tree') *Bisclavret ('The Werewolf') ... *Le Fresne (The Ash Tree) *Equitan *Guigemar *Fables *Ysopets ...
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  • *Shafi'i School (named after Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i) ... * Ash'ari, founded by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (873–935 ...
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  • latter denying it. Later thinkers such as Al-Ash'ari (874-936) searched ... In Shia Islam, Ash'ari's understanding of a higher balance ...
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  • 2,500 °F (1,400 °C)—it also produces fly ash and volatile salts. Wood ash ... coal and wood can introduce smoke, soot and ash into the kiln which can affect ...
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  • This may include being covered by volcanic ash, mud, sand, gravel, or other ... are clay and shale, although volcanic ash may sometimes preserve plant ...
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  • and usually form explosive fragmental ash and tephra deposits. However ... ejecting great clouds of volcanic ash and gas, and producing pyroclastic ...
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  • memory training, Cena de le Ceneri (“The Ash Wednesday Supper,” 1584 ... Giulio Einaudi, 1955; trans. S.L. Jaki, The Ash Wednesday Supper. La Cena ...
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  • events and as such are not lava flows, although tephra and ash deposits are partially preserved. They represent low-volume volatile melts and ...
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  • made of hickory but are now more commonly made of ash. Hickory is sometimes used for hardwood flooring due to its durability and character. ...
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  • A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep ...
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  • * Volcanic ash and lava. * Duricrust, formed by cementation of soils ... It may be freshly formed, such as from an ash fall or alluvium that has ...
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  • tends to form cinder cones of intermingled ash, tuff and lava, and may have ... agglomerate and ignimbrite. Fine volcanic ash is also erupted and forms ...
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  • Burning coal also generates large amounts of bottom ash and fly ash. These materials are used in a wide variety of applications. Harvesting, processing ...
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  • they react quickly, converting the dark lava and ash to white material within a few hours. == Geochemistry == Carbonatite, if composed entirely ...
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  • It is favored by potters who prefer natural ash glazes. This kiln usually ... show its unique firing method that produces ash glazes with gas burning and ...
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  • so that the precipitate is not contaminated with ash.) #After the precipitate is allowed to cool (preferably in a desiccator to keep it from absorbing ...
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  • substances are used to produce clean, white ash for purification ceremonies ... landed in Western Gujarat, they had the ash of such a fire with them. ...
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  • of coal and is high in moisture content and ash content. It is used almost ... Coke is a solid, carbonaceous residue derived from low-ash, low-sulfur ...
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  • work baskets and fish traps from brown ash–the Basket Tree–which ... hole, and burned down to large embers and ash (taking several hours). The ...
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  • down Shasta's east flank via Ash Creek. A separate hot lahar ... Mount Shasta can release volcanic ash, pyroclastic flows or dacite ...
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  • tree, a massive tree—sometimes considered a yew or ash tree—with extensive lore surrounding it. Examples include Thor's Oak, sacred groves, ...
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  • dung is burnt in fuel fires which creates sufficient ash to keep blood-sucking ticks and other parasites at bay. This ash is also used as a sort of toothpaste ...
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  • They use local materials such as brown ash, sweetgrass, and birch trees ... use traditional materials such as brown ash and sweetgrass to make functional ...
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  • distinct types of lava or volcanic deposits: scoria, ash or cinder; breccia and lava flows. Basalt in the tops of subaerial lava flows and cinder ...
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  • Natural zeolites form where volcanic rocks and ash layers react with alkaline groundwater. Zeolites also crystallized in post-depositional environments ...
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  • ! Ash | seed || < 14,200 |- ! Caffeine | seed || 9,100 - 76,000 |- ! Catechutannic-acid | seed || |- ! Choline | seed || |- ! D-catechin ...
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  • nearby areas and raining volcanic ash as far away as 200|mi|km ... was a May 22, 1915, episode that sent ash and steam in a ten-kilometer ...
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  • holes on one side. It is most frequently made of ash wood, plum tree, Pear|pear tree, cornel, or boxwood. The tune is played on the one pipe, which ...
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  • to ashes." It refers to the opaque, ash-gray material that is formed when the mineral is burnt, such as for industrial use. == Occurrence == ...
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  • Bentonite is an absorbent clay consisting mostly of the mineral montmorillonite. It is formed by the weathering of volcanic ash, most often in ...
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  • plums, cherries, the hawthorn tree, the mountain ash, and many others. The genus Rubus is a very complex one, containing 13 subgenera and over ...
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  • today. The original version included an ash body, a 25.5" maple neck ... a brighter, but well rounded sound), swamp ash (producing more pronounced ...
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  • grounds, wearing nothing but a garland of skulls and ash from the pyre, and unable to remove the skull of Brahma fastened to his hand. The skull hence ...
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  • and chunks of entrapped detritus (such as sand, ash, or mud). Occasionally agate fills a void left by decomposed vegetative material such as a tree ...
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  • no solvents are needed beyond the soda ash solution, though a ventilation ... cleaned up with warm water and either soda ash solution or ammonia. Etching ...
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  • volcanic rocks. They are also used to date volcanic ash layers within or overlying paleoanthropologic sites. The younger limit of the argon-argon method ...
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  • Megaera, and Tisiphone), the Meliae, a group of ash-tree nymphs, and according to some, the Telchines (inhabitants of the island of Rhodes). From the ...
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  • eruption spewed an immense volume of ash that covered all of what is ... ago that released 1,000 cubic kilometers of ash, rock and pyroclastic materials ...
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  • The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an ash-colored, thickset, arboreal, herbivorous marsupial averaging about 9 kg in weight. A rather stout ...
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  • (mostly near the western canyon area) deposited ash and lava over the area, which at times completely obstructed the river. These volcanic rocks are ...
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  • presence of the chief deciduous trees—oak, beech, ash, and sycamore maple. These do not reach exactly to the same elevation, nor are they often found ...
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  • Shiva observed the two heaps of ash that had been his brothers and revived them. Together, the three gods decide that the heap of ash that was ...
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