Crossword clues for pumice
pumice
- An abrasive
- Light, porous volcanic rock
- Light lava
- Light form of lava
- Pedicure stone
- This person's about to enter a shade abrasive
- Abrasive material
- Nail salon abrasive
- Stone used in pedicures
- Polishing material
- Abrasive lava
- Stuff in pencil erasers
- Porous pyroclastic
- Exfoliation stone
- Exfoliation material
- Exfoliant ingredient
- Abrasive stone stuff
- Abrasive stuff
- Stonelike abrasive
- Stone used by pedicurists
- Common exfoliant ingredient
- Exfoliation tool
- Rock that may float
- Pedicurist's stone
- Volcanic rock used as abrasive
- A light glass formed on the surface of some lavas
- Used as an abrasive
- Abrasive rock
- Kind of abrasive
- Rock used for polishing
- Hardened volcanic froth
- Volcanic glass
- Polishing powder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 lav
It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Anglo-French and Old French pomis (13c.), from Late Latin pomicem (nominative pomex, genitive pumicis), from Oscan *poimex or some other dialectal variant of Latin pumex "pumice," from PIE *(s)poi-mo-, a root with connotations of "foam, froth" (see foam (n.)). Old English had pumic-stan. As a verb, early 15c., from the noun.
Wiktionary
n. 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. vb. (context transitive English) To abrade or roughen with pumice.
WordNet
n. a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive [syn: pumice stone]
Wikipedia
Pumice , called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of highly vesicular rough textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals. It is typically light colored. Scoria is another vesicular volcanic rock that differs from pumice in having larger vesicles, thicker vesicle walls and being dark colored and denser.
Pumice is created when super-heated, highly pressurized rock is violently ejected from a volcano. The unusual foamy configuration of pumice happens because of simultaneous rapid cooling and rapid depressurization. The depressurization creates bubbles by lowering the solubility of gases (including water and CO) that are dissolved in the lava, causing the gases to rapidly exsolve (like the bubbles of CO that appear when a carbonated drink is opened). The simultaneous cooling and depressurization freezes the bubbles in a matrix. Eruptions under water are rapidly cooled and the large volume of pumice created can be a shipping hazard for cargo ships.
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Pumice and trachyte are the most common rocks around this mountain, and these are augitic or porphyroid.
I rubbed it with pumice stone, sand, and ochre, and finally I succeeded in imparting to my production such a queer, old-fashioned shape that I could not help laughing in looking at my work.
Soon, however, lapilli began to come down, then occasional bombs of pumice weighing many pounds.
Progressively deeper levels within the magma chamber were tapped, until after about seven hours the more mafic grey pumice was reached.
The work of effacing this ink was accomplished by moistening the parchment with a weak alkaline solution and by rubbing it with pumice stone.
Then he would dip the tapered point into the ink-horn and, magically, begin inscribing the chalked and pumiced parchment spread on the desk before him.
The catch about going to the pumice was the difference in traction between the center lane and the pumiced surface, which resembled a strip of frozen sponge.
Abreast of Cotopaxi the road cuts through high hills of fine pumice inter-stratified with black earth, and rapidly ascends till it reaches Tiupullo, eleven thousand five hundred feet above the sea.
Convection carried incandescent gas and pumice clasts to a height of 28 km.
Convection carried incandescant gas and pumice clasts to a height of 28 km.
The coarser part of this material, including much pumice, fell upon the seas in the vicinity, where, owing to its lightness, it was free to drift in the marine currents far and wide throughout the oceanic realm.
From the top of the pass beyond the lakes there is a grand view of the volcano in all its nakedness, with its lava beds and fields of pumice, with the lakes of Onuma, Konuma, and Ginsainoma, lying in the forests at its feet, and from the top of another hill there is a remarkable view of windy Hakodate, with its headland looking like Gibraltar.
Mufgar of the Orisha clan squatted on bony legs and removed four pumice rocks from a leather pouch at his side.
An early experiment with public housing for war veterans left its shoreline marred by cul-de-sac housing developments the color of pumice, each one a collection of four buildings housing sixteen units and curved in on each other in a horseshoe, skeletal metal clothesline structures rising out of pools of rust in the cracked tar.