pumice
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He died at Stabiae, a few miles south of Pompeii, gazing over a sea rendered unnavigable by pumice and strong opposing winds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
The Paiute-Shoshone Indians later chipped away at the red pumice stone, which exposed the lighter rock minerals underneath, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
Besides the acids and bacteria, the balls also contained volcanic rock pumice.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025
In addition to lava, volcanos eject large amounts of pumice, ashes and gases as a fast-moving flow, known as "pyroclastic flow," and its sediments are a valuable data source on past eruptions.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
The girls were taking turns with the pumice stone, scraping it along the ends of sticks to make spears.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
The upper Piton is unfitted for retaining water, which must percolate through its cinders, pumices, and loose matter into many a reservoir formed by blowing-holes.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Donkeys usually keep their hooves naturally pumiced by foraging for long miles over rocky ground.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
Her pumiced spear at the ready, Sosie crouched behind the bush to watch and wait.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Still craving on some stall to stand, Fresh pumiced from the binder's hand.
From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Austin Dobson
In these cases the horn is soft, often white, and stringy or mealy, as seen in pumiced sole resulting from founder.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Her oars, eighty-seven to the side, pumiced white and hurling out the spray, are leaping back and forth in perfect unison.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
I decided to ham it up, doing my best Michael Jackson moonwalk, pumicing my bare feet as I dragged them awkwardly across concrete.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2023
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Earth Science - Middle School
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