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pumice::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pumice stone |
| Type of | rock, stone |
pumice::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | rub |
Examples of pumice
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Many beaches around the Kagoshima Bay are littered with well-worn pumice stones.
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Dip the pad in the liquid, then the pumice, and rub the tabletop with the grain.
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Nearby, water bubbles in a grotto fountain surrounded by hand-hewn pumice walls.
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Specimen of highly porous pumice from Teide volcano on Tenerife, Canary Islands.
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You probably still have residual Icelandic pumice and ash deposits in your lungs.
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To fill a raised bed, mix equal parts garden soil, peat moss, compost and pumice.
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For now, his feet soak in hot water as a preacher buffs them with a pumice stone.
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Figures, animals and trees made of stucco and rough pumice adorn the lower walls.
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They consist of pumice, quartz crystals and feldspar in a feldspar rich matrix.
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- A light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive
- Rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen
- Pumice is a textural term for a volcanic rock that is a solidified frothy lava typically created when super-heated, highly pressurized rock is violently ejected from a volcano. It can be formed when lava and water are mixed. ...
- A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into the air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock; To abrade or roughen with pumice
- A fine abrasive powder that is made from volcanic ash. Pumice is used with a a felt block in woodworking to rub out (polish) a finish. (Pumice is also the gritty additive in Lava soap.)
- Pumice is an igneous rock derived from lava. It is light and porous. Pumice was used as a building stone by the Romans and has been much-used in making grottos because it favour the growth of plants.
- Volcanic origin, used for its exfoliating action.
- Light-colored, frothy volcanic rock, usually of dacite or rhyolite composition, formed by the expansion of gas in erupting lava. Commonly seen as lumps or fragments of pea-size and larger, but can also occur abundantly as ash-sized particles.
- Volcanic rock formed during the explosive eruption of magma; it has numerous gas bubbles and floats on water.
