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Mary,
The dry ash method is used to find the total mineral content of a sample.
The wet digestion (wet ashing) method is used to chemically isolate the
individual minerals to allow further tests, which in turn, determine the
content of specific minerals.
http://www-
unix.oit.umass.edu/~mcclemen/581Ash&Minerals.html
Hope this helps,
Forrest
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