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fly ash

–noun
1. fine particles of ash of a solid fuel carried out of the flue of a furnace with the waste gases produced during combustion.
2. such ash recovered from the waste gases, used chiefly as a reinforcing agent in the manufacture of bricks, concrete, etc.

Origin:
1930–35
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