ash
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Soon, the highway cuts through miles of gray and white volcanic pumice and ash, creating a lunar-like landscape that manages to confuse the visual senses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
A tanker was struck by multiple projectiles Wednesday about 51 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Having come face to face with its most brutal consequences, Cassie’s rose-colored glasses have been removed, stomped on, ground to a pulp and had their remains burnt to ash.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., volcanic ash overwhelmed the city and transformed more than a thousand papyrus scrolls in a local library into fragile, charred remains.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
The dead leaves and vines dissolve into a sandy ash and join the other grains of sand.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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