PUMICE


Meaning of PUMICE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

stone

Treat calluses by rubbing with a callus file, a pumice stone , or a hard-skin remover.

You should file calluses and corns with a pumice stone , but never cut them with sharp instruments.

Each day, while you are bathing, soap the pumice stone and gently rub the area to be treated.

My hands are like pumice stones !

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

If such vesicles are extremely abundant pumice is formed.

No pumice will float indefinitely, though.

The combustion melts the pumice , the hot gases foam it up, and the hot foam fills the mould in seconds.

The hardest, pumice , is used in a number of proprietary compounds.

This situation is changing, though, and some interesting things are now being done with pumice deposits.

Treat calluses by rubbing with a callus file, a pumice stone, or a hard-skin remover.

You should file calluses and corns with a pumice stone, but never cut them with sharp instruments.

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