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to argue with matter until it agrees to become smoke.
means To destroy something completely by burning it, usually until only ash and smoke remain.
from From Latin 'in-' (into) plus 'cinis, cineris' meaning ash or cinder — so to incinerate is, quite literally, to reduce a thing 'into ashes.' That same 'cinis' is the buried root in our word 'cinder,' and a distant cousin of the name 'Cinderella,' the girl who lived among the ashes of the hearth.
- latin root
- from cinis, meaning ashes or embers
- temperature
- crematoriums run near 1800 degrees Fahrenheit
- waste trick
- some plants burn trash to power cities
- total loss
- leaves only ash, gas, and regret
for instance
mount vesuvius eruption — incinerated pompeii and herculaneum in 79 ad, preserving residents as ash casts
hiroshima atomic bombing — incinerated approximately 70,000 people instantly on august 6, 1945