

sometimes dash'' is also used colloquially to refer to a ''hyphen'' or ''minus sign. (typography) Any of the following symbols: (''horizontal bar ).* 1849, in a lettre to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer, volume V, number 7, pages 227-8 After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.).* 1847, H., Ashes on Corn.-An Experiment'', published in the ''Genesee Farmer, volume 8, page 281 Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn.(obsolete, mostly used in the past tense) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.

Suzanne Nielsen, ed, Food Analysis, fourth edition, ISBN 978-1-4419-1477-4, Chapter 12, "Traditional Methods for Mineral Analysis", page 213 A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed, and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO 3 + Cl ? AgCl). Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 ☌, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities. * 1989?, Annals of Botany, volume 64, issues 4-6, page 397 Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques.* 1981, Hans Weill, Margaret Turner-Warwick, and Claude Lenfant, eds, Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods'', ''Lung Biology in Health and disease, volume 18, page 203 The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253 I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath * 1919, Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather'', published in the ''Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, W.(chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash.
