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Volcanictuff vs Pumice - What's the difference?

volcanictuff | pumice |

As a noun pumice is

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.

As a verb pumice is

to abrade or roughen with pumice.

volcanictuff

Not English

Volcanictuff has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

pumice

English

Noun

(wikipedia pumice) (-)
  • 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.
  • * 1912, , The Woman at the Store , Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10
  • The wind blew close to the ground - it rooted among the tussock grass - slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces - settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on our bodies.

    Verb

    (pumic)
  • To abrade or roughen with pumice.
  • See also

    * pumice stone ----