Cinder vs. Tinder — What's the Difference?

A cinder is a pyroclastic material. Cinders are extrusive igneous rocks; they are fragments of solidified lava.

Tinder is easily combustible material used to start a fire. Tinder is a finely divided, open material which will begin to glow under a shower of sparks.

A small piece of partly burnt coal or wood that has stopped giving off flames but still has combustible matter in it

Readily combustible material, such as dry twigs, used to kindle fires.

Waste matter produced by smelting or refining ore; slag.

Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.

A small piece of burned or partly burned substance, such as coal, that is not reduced to ashes but is incapable of further combustion.

(transitive) To set fire to; torch.

A piece of charred substance that can burn further but without flame.

Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.

Cinders Ashes.

Material for starting a fire

Cinders(Geology) See scoria.

(Metallurgy) See scoria.

Slag from a metal furnace.

To burn or reduce to cinders.

Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.

An ember.

Slag from a metal furnace.

Any strong stimulant added to tea, soda water, etc.

(transitive) To reduce to cinders.

(transitive) To cover with cinders.

Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

A hot coal without flame; an ember.

A scale thrown off in forging metal.

The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.

A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire