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pumice

verb as in buff

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The Paiute-Shoshone Indians later chipped away at the red pumice stone, which exposed the lighter rock minerals underneath, according to the Bureau of Land Management.

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Besides the acids and bacteria, the balls also contained volcanic rock pumice.

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They had also visited Pompeii, the ancient Italian city buried under volcanic ash and pumice when Mt.

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A wide residential and commercial block, known as "Region 9", is being cleared of several metres of overlying pumice and ash thrown out by Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago.

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In addition to lava, volcanos eject large amounts of pumice, ashes and gases as a fast-moving flow, known as "pyroclastic flow," and its sediments are a valuable data source on past eruptions.

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