Volcanictuff vs Pumice - What's the difference?
volcanictuff | 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
To abrade or roughen with 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) (-)- 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.