Sentences with phrase «nonflaming pumice»

Though it later turned out to be a piece of pumice stone.

Turns out, bricking means cleaning the grill with a huge pumice stone.

It operates with 4 attachments (all included): a small brush for the face, a large brush for the body, pumice for rough areas, and a facial sponge for microdermabrasion and reduction of fine lines and wrinkles.

I often grab a bottle of nail polish, a pumice stone, a nail file, some clippers and some lotion and treat myself to a mani / pedi.

How to use: Before using the medicine, the warts affected area should be soaked in water for about five minutes and then gently rubbed with pumice stone or wash cloth so that the medicine penetrates easily.

This pumice stone or wash cloth should not be re-used to avoid re-infection.

The pumice is made from recycled glass and gently removed calluses and dry skin in seconds.

Scrub those puppies up good with the EcoTools Foot Brush Pumice ($ 5.99).

The slap bracelet includes a pumice stone «head» that absorbs the oil and then consistently releases the scent.

Residents should note there are comparable personal care and cosmetic products containing natural materials like ground almonds, pumice, and oatmeal that provide the same effects as products containing synthetic plastic microbeads.

You also get some cool accessories with this foot spa: a pumice stone, scrub brush, and soft - touch massager.

Instead of a harsh abrasive, this one uses pumice for fast and gentle results.

Pumice is a highly vesicular pyroclastic igneous rock of intermediate to siliceous magmas including rhyolite, trachyte and phonolite.

Everything from additional massaging rollers to pumice stones to toe separators!

A two - hour - long bounce dropped it in a craggy pit (right, with lander leg at bottom) where the ground is as hard as pumice.

These unpredictable eruptions may also create a floating blanket of rocks, called a pumice raft, which can clog harbors and damage boats.

A bit of satellite - image detective work revealed the size and path of the pumice raft, which formed no more than 21 1/2 hours after the eruption ended.

But using an old seafloor map of Havre and satellite data, Carey and her colleagues calculated that more than 75 percent of the material produced by Havre ended up in the 400 - square - kilometer pumice raft.

POOF Most of the debris from the 2012 eruption of Havre (shown), a deep - sea volcano near New Zealand, ended up in a pumice raft that floated across the South Pacific.

The map shows a massive rupture, lava from 14 different vents ranging from 900 to 1,220 meters below the surface, chunks of pumice, landslide deposits and a blanket of ash.

Although underwater eruptions happen all the time, scientists have only recorded such events since the 1990s, and pumice rafts can often float under the radar.

The features are both covered by several metres of volcanic ash or pumice, which he says would absorb radar.

In winter, storms of blowing pumice take visibility down to zero.

As there was no land for hundreds of miles (and evidently being unable to believe that the pumice could have traveled that far) the crew attributed the field to an underwater eruption of unknown location.

In the past, they've opted for chunks of buoyant volcanic pumice or even bits of wood, both of which are rare on the open ocean.

Finally by noon on April 12, a faint light broke through, and the captain was struck by the thought that the Benares resembled nothing more than a giant calcified pumice stone.

After planting in our minds the arresting image of skeletons floating on rafts of pumice, for instance, he pauses for a lecture on the many uses of pumice and other volcanic stones.

The village of Tambora, closer to the volcano, vanished under a flood of pumice.

Nearly a year later, a giant raft of Krakatoa pumice washed up on the shore of Zanzibar, 3,000 miles away off East Africa, where it was found by schoolchildren.

Like giant icebergs, the pumice fields remained a hazard to ships for years after the eruption.

Violent explosions from the reaction of lava with cold seawater threw even greater quantities of ash into the atmosphere, and created vast fields of pumice stones along the shoreline.

Pumice stones — some walnut - sized but others twice the size of a man's fist — rained down upon the village of Sanggar, nineteen miles away.

The best explanation for these observations, says Butler, is that the radar - absorbing regions are vast plains of volcanic ash or pumice.

The coastline was barely recognizable; what had been one of the most beautiful and regular harbors in Asia now was an obstacle course, littered with masses of black pumice stone, tree trunks burnt and splintered as if by lightning, and the prows of previously sunken ships which the ocean had thrown onto land.

New research reveals that the spindly - legged Halobates sericeus has begun to lay its eggs on not only bobbing pieces of pumice and other ocean debris but also on floating garbage in the Pacific Ocean.

They examined 130 outcrops on the flanks of the volcano, exposing sequences of pumice — ash hardened into rock — and other pyroclastic material.

Yellowish inclusions are pumice, dark stony fragments are lava, gray areas consist of other volcanic crystalline materials, and white spots are lime.

So - called Plinian eruptions — named for Roman statesman Pliny the Younger, whose written observations of this very eruption have helped scientists piece together the story of Pompeii and Vesuvius — would instead send large and small chunks of solid, nonflaming pumice flying through the air.

Research reveals that the spindly - legged bug Halobates sericeus has begun to lay its eggs on not only bobbing pieces of pumice and other ocean debris but also on floating garbage in the Pacific Ocean.

The longest - lasting island braved the ocean waves for 17 years; the shortest, which was composed of ultralight pumice, lasted but three weeks.

And even then, the volcano belched ash and pumice for 18 hours before releasing the suffocating gas that killed the people of Pompeii.

Based on the size of the 2012 pumice raft, the eruption of the Havre Volcano was estimated to be the largest documented underwater silicic eruption — a particular type of eruption that produces viscous, gas - filled lava that often occurs explosively.

But this lava did not reach the water — it therefore was not the source of the pumice.

It turned out that each bump was a giant block of pumice, some of them the size of a van.

Pumice — a light kind of lava made porous by the escape of steam or gas during cooling — is high in silicate.

«Pumice is being washed up on the beaches,» says Pat Quilty, head of science at the Antarctic Division in Hobart.

We have no record of pumice on the island.»

On July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New Zealand.

Pumice and ash blanketed thousands of square miles.

True lava forms more enduring structures — like Surtsey in Iceland, which broke through surface waters in 1963 and remains exposed today — while islands of mostly pumice and ash are quickly torn down by the waves.