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Incineration   /ɪnsˈɪnərˌeɪʃən/   Listen
Incineration

noun
1.
The act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes.





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"Incineration" Quotes from Famous Books



... presents, the greater is our astonishment. How was the fusion achieved of elements so refractory alike in their structure and in the resistance offered by accumulated masses of material? By what processes was heat brought up to the 1300 degrees necessary for the fusion of granite? The incineration and fusion of the materials of which the vitrified forts are made, especially the granite ones of La Creuse and the Cotes du Nord, bear witness, says Daubree, to a surprising skill and knowledge of the management of fire in those who ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac


Words linked to "Incineration" :   combustion, cremation, incinerate, burning


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