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Significats de pumice en anglès

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A light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive.

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Examples for "pumice stone"
Examples for "pumice stone"
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After this has dried, smooth it off with pumice stone and water.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
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And from that cloud showered these hot, pelting pebbles of pumice stone.
Buried Cities, Volume 1: Pompeii
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Rub into the periphery a paste of sifted powdered pumice stone and water.
On Laboratory Arts
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But where a precious stone will take lustre a pumice stone will crumble.
What Can She Do?
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There was yellow soap, a pumice stone, and carbolic soap, and scented soap.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
Ús de pumice en anglès
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The islands are all volcanic, all ash and cinders, lava and pumice.
A Tramp's Notebook
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After this has dried, smooth it off with pumice stone and water.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
3
And from that cloud showered these hot, pelting pebbles of pumice stone.
Buried Cities, Volume 1: Pompeii
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Pyroclastic Flows Pyroclastic flows are a mixture of gases, ash and pumice.
Radio NZ
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In the spaces between the ridges, there were porous marks, suggesting pumice.
Heart of stone
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Thus he formed, for instance, pumice-stone, feldspar, mica, iron pyrites, &c. artificially.
Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and Its Relation to Commerce, Phy...
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The mud clung like glue and the black sand scratched like pumice.
Dogs of war
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If copious amounts of pumice form, it collects in rafts on the ocean.
BBC
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Rub into the periphery a paste of sifted powdered pumice stone and water.
On Laboratory Arts
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NZTA has not explained how the pumice was not detected at the start.
Radio NZ
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The intervening spaces are concealed with layers of pumice, ashes and volcanic tuff.
The Voyage of the Beagle
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In 1797 an eruption hurled out pumice, ashes, and sulphureous vapours.
At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies
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The great sandy piazza, glittered as if strewn with powdered pumice.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian
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The ground was covered with slag, lava flows, and pumice stones.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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There are many specimens of half-formed pumice, with greenstone and lava.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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But where a precious stone will take lustre a pumice stone will crumble.
What Can She Do?
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