element

Bone ash

Elements

White ash from burned bone, used in fine china and assays. Not ash from wood, and not ivory as the polished material.

  • Bone ash is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats burned bone ash among drying and abrasive ash-earth applications. A Roman-era pharmacological use of bone ash, not charcoal as wood carbon and not chalk.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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