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Definition of Pumice

Pumice
Pumice Pum"ice, n. [L. pumex, pumicis, prob. akin to spuma foam: cf. AS. pumic-st[=a]n. Cf. Pounce a powder, Spume.] (Min.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.

Meaning of Pumice from wikipedia

- Pumice ( /ˈpʌmɪs/), called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of extremely vesicular rough-textured volcanic gl****...
- A pumice raft is a floating raft of pumice created by some eruptions of submarine volcanoes or coastal subaerial volcanoes. Pumice rafts have unique characteristics...
- paper, crushed apricot kernel or almond s****, sugar or salt crystals, pumice, and abrasive materials such as sponges, loofahs, brushes, and fingernails...
- The large volume of low density pumice produced by the eruption ac****ulated as a large area of floating pumice, a pumice raft, that was originally covering...
- Pumice Desert is a dry meadow in Crater Lake National Park. It covers 3,055 acres (4.8 sq mi; 12.4 km2) and is located along the North Entrance Park Road...
- gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), erupting molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 6×105 cubic metres (7.8×105 cu yd) per second. More than...
- present in this data set. The Velocity may have observed pumice sea rafts (m****es of floating pumice ejected from an underwater volcano) traversing the Sandy...
- Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms. They are built by ejecta from a volcanic vent, piling up around the vent in the shape of a cone...
- cells are rubbed off the bottom of the feet using a rough stone (often a pumice stone). Skincare is often provided up to the knee, including granular exfoliation...
- Canada. It consists of pumice from an explosive eruption that fell over an area about 40 square kilometres (15 square miles). The pumice is of comenditic trachyte...