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What is a lightweight rock that floats?
Pumice
What is a light porous volcanic rock called?
Pumice. It floats on water due to its vesicular structure.
What is the only rock floats?
Pumice the only common rock that floats in water. But flotation is a technique often used in the processing of rocks for lab study. For this, very dense fluids are used such as polytungstates, or some heavy chlorinated or brominated liquids. Some of these have a relative density of 3.
What type of volcanic rock floats?
Some types of pumice have enough air inside to float.
Why pumice floats while a rock of similar size will sink in the same tank of water?
When pumice is formed - it traps minute amounts of gas in bubbles within the rock itself. This makes it buoyant.
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.
What rocks float?
Vessicular Rocks. Eg Scoria and Pumice.
What is a lightweight rock that floats?
Pumice
The extrusive igneous rock that floats in water?
Pumice
Where do you find a rock that floats?
The on rock that floats is a pumice. It is a kind of volcanic glass. The reason it floats is because it has big pours all over it. I'm only in 8th grade and I still know the answer.
Name the Only rock that flows?
If you mean the only rock that floats, than it would be pumice, which is often used to remove hard skin.
Does a lodestone float?
No. If a rock floats it is most likely pumice.
What is the difference of a pumice and a slate?
Pumice is a porous rock and slat is not. Pumice floats in water because of the air pockets in the rock. Slate is a layer of rock that is tightly packed, or is very "dense".
What is a light porous volcanic rock called?
Pumice. It floats on water due to its vesicular structure.
How can there be a rock that floats and what are three ways that this rock can be formed?
Very porous rocks such as pumice can be very light and have the potential to float on water. Pumice is a volcanic rock.
What is the name of a very porous igneous rock that is so light that floats?
pumice
What is the only rock floats?
Pumice the only common rock that floats in water. But flotation is a technique often used in the processing of rocks for lab study. For this, very dense fluids are used such as polytungstates, or some heavy chlorinated or brominated liquids. Some of these have a relative density of 3.
