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A crematory reduces human remains to ash through intense heat, a final act of care for the dead.
means A furnace-equipped facility built to reduce human remains to ash and bone fragments through intense heat.
from From Latin 'crematorium,' built on the verb 'cremare' meaning 'to burn' or 'consume by fire.' The root is ancient, likely tied to an old Indo-European base for burning, but English borrowed the word fairly directly through Latin in the 19th century, right as purpose-built cremation furnaces were becoming an actual industry rather than a funeral pyre on the ground.
- temperature range
- runs 1400 to 1800 degrees fahrenheit
- duration
- takes roughly two to three hours
- what remains
- bone fragments, ground into the ash you see
- metal removal
- magnets pull hip and dental implants afterward