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Meanings of pumice in English
Usage of pumice in English
1
The islands are all volcanic, all ash and cinders, lava and pumice.
2
After this has dried, smooth it off with pumice stone and water.
3
And from that cloud showered these hot, pelting pebbles of pumice stone.
4
Pyroclastic Flows Pyroclastic flows are a mixture of gases, ash and pumice.
5
In the spaces between the ridges, there were porous marks, suggesting pumice.
6
Thus he formed, for instance, pumice-stone, feldspar, mica, iron pyrites, &c. artificially.
7
The mud clung like glue and the black sand scratched like pumice.
8
If copious amounts of pumice form, it collects in rafts on the ocean.
9
Rub into the periphery a paste of sifted powdered pumice stone and water.
10
NZTA has not explained how the pumice was not detected at the start.
11
The intervening spaces are concealed with layers of pumice, ashes and volcanic tuff.
12
In 1797 an eruption hurled out pumice, ashes, and sulphureous vapours.
13
The great sandy piazza, glittered as if strewn with powdered pumice.
14
The ground was covered with slag, lava flows, and pumice stones.
15
There are many specimens of half-formed pumice, with greenstone and lava.
16
But where a precious stone will take lustre a pumice stone will crumble.
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