scoria

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The type of volcanic rock with common vesicles is called scoria.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Lank shadows and stocky, the fluttering shadows of dresses, the ridiculous elongated shadows of trousered legs, darted and danced last week all over the reddish scoria of the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

All that fearful day and all the following night scoria and ashes continued to fall, the thunder never ceased, and the lightning was still incessant.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon

There is plain evidence of these volcanic cones and craters having discharged basalt, lava, scoria, cinders, and the like within a comparatively modern period.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The former describes many substances under the terms scoria, molybdaena, scoria argyros and lithargyros, which are all varieties of litharge.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius