Volcanic ash is made of rock and glass
When you hear 'ash,' you probably picture soft, harmless flakes from a campfire. Volcanic ash is nothing like that. It is actually pulverized rock and jagged microscopic shards of rapid-cooled glass violently blasted into the atmosphere. Inhaling it doesn't give you a cough; it literally shreds delicate tissues with thousands of invisible geological knives.

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