(n.) A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
(2) The vertebrae with deformation of the arcus parts are only from the lower vertebral column; on account of the weight of this body region, this suggests that the corpse lay in the dorsal position at the place of cremation.
(3) Such differential mineralization points on physiological and pathological processes in bone and teeth, and is frequently conserved both in excavated skeletal remains and in cremations.
(4) Plumes of smoke rose above Kathmandu as friends, relatives and others gathered by the river to quickly cremate their loved ones’ remains.
(5) Mercury contamination by cremation, therefore comprised only 0.61 to 1.53% of the total mercury contamination produced by all waste incineration methods.
(6) But looking back it was a terrible thing to have happened.” Medical staff preserved the POWs’ corpses in formaldehyde for future use by students, but at the end of the war the remains were quickly cremated, as doctors attempted to hide evidence of their crimes.
(7) We scan the questions on our starters list: "Cremation or burial?
(8) Lee will be cremated after full state honours on Sunday.
(9) The operators themselves did not enter; instead, Jewish inmates from the Sonderkommando were sent in to drag out the bodies for cremation.
(10) Although there is no difference in the funeral director's charges for cremation or burial, the price of a standard-size grave has risen 42% to £612 since 2007.
(11) Among the most difficult cases for law enforcement and medicolegal investigators to investigate are those in which victims have been deliberately burned to cover up a crime, or those in which cremation has resulted from an accident or suicide.
(12) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
(13) These findings are not necessarily applicable to the general population, as the cremation group is not truly representative, but the consistently lower prevalence of IHD suggests that there is over-reporting of this disease in unmonitored death certification.
(14) The absolute difference indicates, that cremation weight is not a useful criterion for identification.
(15) As his head was being shaved, he heard, for the first time, about old people and women being taken to Birkenau to be gassed and cremated.
(16) UK cremation costs have risen more than those for burials: the price of the average cremation is up by 4.2% to £3,294, while the average burial is up by 3.7% to £4,110.
(17) Many have now changed their specifications to upgrade old cremators with the 350kg model, the largest on the market.
(18) She is to be accorded the rare honour of a ceremonial funeral with full military honours at St Paul's Cathedral, central London, followed by a private cremation.
(19) The unit has met all United States and foreign atomic energy commission safety specifications including mechanical shock, industrial fire, accidental crush, cremation, impact, and corrosion.
(20) Friends had scrambled through wreckage to find him, but said they could not afford a car to get him back to his monastery for cremation.
Incinerating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incinerate
Example Sentences:
(1) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(2) The corpse was then “put into a sealed biosecurity device and transferred for incineration at an authorized disposal facility”.
(3) Included in the thermal destruction category are treatment technologies such as rotary kiln incineration, fluidized bed incineration, infrared thermal treatment, wet air oxidation, pyrolytic incineration, and vitrification.
(4) To examine further this hypothesis, we investigated the sex ratios of births in an area in central Scotland which contained two incineration plants.
(5) The concentrations of copper were analysed approximately in 0.5 g of dry matter by acid incineration and atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
(6) Mercury contents of samples of sea water and fish from Kagoshima Bay, sediments in rivers, and the surface soil from the area surrounding a waste incinerator in the city of Kagoshima were measured to search for the source of mercury in Kagoshima Bay.
(7) That crowded, baroque city, with its high tally of wooden buildings, was incinerated on the night of 13 February 1944 in a man-made firestorm that destroyed 90% of the city centre.
(8) In particular, incineration greatly enhances the mobility and bioavailability of toxic metals present in MSW.
(9) Each unit has about the same air-handling capacity as a conventional air incinerator with a brick stack but costs only about one-third as much.
(10) Environmental contamination from particulate and gaseous emissions containing heavy metals, polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDD) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDF), polycyclic aromatics (PCA), acids and other compounds from such incinerators, as well as safe ash disposal, are of great concern.
(11) Activity measurements of 3H and 14C in several environmental samples around the incinerator for radioactive liquid scintillator waste at the Radioisotope Center, Kyushu University were carried out to estimate their levels.
(12) Portable incinerators have been built, but rarely deployed.
(13) Our council has given the go-ahead for a private company to build an incinerator in the bottom of the Aire Valley – near homes, schools and a sports facility.
(14) Regulation to control air emissions of toxic organic compounds require the collection and analysis of effluent gas from low level sources such as hazardous waste incinerators.
(15) SAHSU analysed the incidence of cancers of the larynx and lung near the incinerator of waste solvents and oils at Charnock Richard, Coppull, Lancashire (which operated between 1972 and 1980) and nine other similar incinerators in Great Britain, after reports of a cluster of cases of cancer of the larynx near the Charnock Richard site.
(16) Mercury contamination by cremation, therefore comprised only 0.61 to 1.53% of the total mercury contamination produced by all waste incineration methods.
(17) Polychlorobiphenyl (PCBs) levels and hepatic xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme activities were measured in fish from three locations of the River Rhône to study the consequences of a constant loading of PCBs from a PCB incineration plant.
(18) Ash density of the bone samples was measured after incineration.
(19) A long-established and successful dairy herd in central Scotland sustained severe morbidity and mortality amongst animals which had grazed on a field beside a recently established dump which contained wastes from a chemical waste incinerator.
(20) Factors that influence production of mutagenic compounds during refuse incineration and subsequent worker exposure are discussed.