Pumice Definition

pŭmĭs
pumiced, pumices, pumicing
noun
pumices
An extremely porous, glassy, extrusive igneous rock typically light enough to float on water, used as an abrasive and in making soaps, polishes, etc.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To clean, polish, etc. with pumice.
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Origin of Pumice

  • Middle English from Anglo-Norman pomis from Late Latin pōmex from Latin pūmex alteration of spūma foam

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin pÅ«mex (“pumice stone").

    From Wiktionary

Pumice Sentence Examples

  • Pumice stone is also exported from Lipari (II,oio tons in 1904).

  • For efficiency the operation must be conducted with small quantities; caking may be prevented by mixing the substance with sand or powdered pumice, or, better, with iron filings, which also renders the decomposition more regular by increasing the conductivity of the mass.

  • Large areas are overlain with trachyte, basalt, obsidian, tuff and pumice.

  • The dredge often brings up large numbers of nodules formed upon sharks' teeth, the ear-bones of whales or turtles or small fragments of pumice or other volcanic ejecta, and all more or less incrusted with manganese oxide until the nodules vary in size from that of a potato to that of a man's head.

  • Though, thanks to the overlaying porous pumice, the Taupo plateau is not fertile, it has a good rainfall and is drained by unfailing rivers running through deep terraced ravines.

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Words Starting With

PPUPUM

Words Ending With

ECEICE

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pumice

Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With E