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Tuff vs Pyroclastic - What's the difference?

tuff | pyroclastic |

As adjectives the difference between tuff and pyroclastic

is that tuff is older and simplified spelling of tough while pyroclastic is (vulcanology) mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin or comminuted during an eruption.

As nouns the difference between tuff and pyroclastic

is that tuff is (rock) a light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel while pyroclastic is a rock mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin.

tuff

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Adjective

(er)
  • older and simplified spelling of tough
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1980 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Joy Wilt Berry, Ernie Hergenroeder , title=Tuff Stuff: A Children's Book about Trauma , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Educational Products Division, Word, Inc. , isbn=9780849981364 , page= , passage=Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ... }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2000 , year_published= , edition= , editor=Sylvia Bowerbank, Sara Mendelson , author=Margaret Cavendish , title=Paper Bodies , chapter=Preface to the Reader (1655) citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn=9781551111735 , page=139 , passage=… yet never to make us so strong as the strongest of Men, whose Sinnews are tuffer , and Bones stronger, and Joints closer, and Flesh firmer, than ours are … }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Ronald Carter , title=The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing , chapter= citation , genre=Language Arts , publisher=Routledge , isbn=9780415286367 , page=96 , passage=It was rave reviewed in the Caribbean Times as 'the ruffest, tuffest and the boo-yacka of all modern gangster novels'. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Paige Hemmis , title=The Tuff Chix Guide to Easy Home Improvement , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Penguin , isbn=9780452287617 , page=36 , passage=TUFF METER }}
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-01-20 , year= , first= , last= , author=Robert J. Elisberg , authorlink= , title=CES 2020 -- Ohm on the Range , site=Huffington Post citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-09-14 , passage=Its Tuff'-n-Tiny USB flash drive is about the size of a thumbnail. … The company insists that the "' tuff " part of the name is well-earned for being waterproof, dustproof and you can drive a car over it. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2011 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Kristian Pope , title=Tuff Stuff Professional Wrestling Field Guide: Legend and Lore , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Krause Publications , isbn=9781440228100 , page= , passage=Tuff Stuff Professional Wrestling }}

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, tuff (wikipedia tuff)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tuffe, (tuf), from (etyl) tufo, from (etyl) .

    Noun

  • (rock) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 9n:
    • This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff ’.
    Related terms
    * tufflava

    pyroclastic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (vulcanology) Mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin or comminuted during an eruption.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1862 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= The Student's Manual of Geology , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=3DUDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA68 , original= , chapter= Igneous Rocks , isbn= , edition= 2 , publisher= Adam and Charles Black , location= Edinburgh , editor= , volume= , page= 68 , passage= The word "ash" is not a very good one to include all the mechanical accompaniments of a subaerial or subaqueous eruption, since ash seems to be restricted to a fine powder, the residuum of combustion. A word is wanting to express all such accompaniments, no matter what their size or condition may be, when they are accumulated in such mass as to form beds of "rock." We might call them perhaps "pyroclastic materials," ... }}

    Derived terms

    * pyroclastic flow * pyroclastic rock * pyroclastic surge

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rock mostly composed of rock fragments of volcanic origin
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1897 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= The American Naturalist: An Illustrated Magazine of Natural History , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=lnIWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221 , original= , chapter= General Notes: Geology and Paleontology , section = No. 363 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= The Edwards & Docker Co. , location= Philadelphia , editor= Edward D. Cope and Frederick C. Kenyon , volume= 31 , page= 221 , passage= The basic volcanics are altered andesites, porphyritic diabases and andesites, and various pyroclastics . }}