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What are the qualities of pumice that make pumice a useful ingredient in various products?
It is abrasive, metals in pumice are not water soluble, naturally occurring substance http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-uses-of-pumice.htm
What are uses of Pumice?
Pumice is used to clean teeth from their dental plaque. Also used to smooth callus and other rough areas on feet.
Is pumice small?
Not necessarily. Some chucks of pumice can be boulder sized.
What things is a pumice usually used for?
Pumice can be used in soap as an abrasive to help with really dirty hands. It probably has many other uses as well.
Were is pumice found?
Large amounts of pumice are found in Italy, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Canada, and parts of the United States, especially the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states. In many of these locations, pumice is mined to be sold for a variety of uses.
Is there pumice in clay?
No. Clay consists of highly weathered material. While some components of pumice may by re-worked into clay, it will have long since ceased to be pumice.
Do certain rocks float on water?
Pumice, a volcanic rock that is like a silicate version of Styrofoam, will float on water, if it is of high enough air content (some pumice is, some is not). Pumice rock is ground up and added to cleansers and some soaps (Lava) as a scrubbing agent.
What is a pumice source?
Pumice is produced in the lava from certain volcanic eruptions. It forms from gas-rich andesitic or rhyolitic lava and has so many gas bubbles that some pumice can float on water.
What rock floats on water?
Floating rocks: pumice. Non-floating rocks: all but pumice. Pumice can float on water because its density is so low, due to trapped bubbles of air which formed during its solidification from lava.
Is pumice white or is pumice gray?
Pumice can be white, gray, or even pink.
Is pumice organic?
No. Pumice is inorganic.
How did pumice get here?
how did pumice get here
