pumice

Their march this day lay among singular hills and knolls of an indurated red earth, resembling brick, about the bases of which were scattered pumice stones and cinders, the whole bearing traces of the action of fire.

Some of his low places he found lifted to ideals, some of his ideas had sunk to the valleys, and lay there with the sackcloth and ashes of pumice stone and sulphur on their ruined heads.

"We entered a total rock rubble slick made up of pumice stones from marble to basketball size," the couple said in a Facebook post.

The Pampanga Vibro Mining Operators Association Inc., which counts large-scale operators who sell sand, pumice stones and mud, has appealed for due process in the decision to suspend quarrying.

It's not as though we'll be ordered to stop flushing our toilets, or to drink only neat cordial, or to scrape ourselves clean with dry pumice stones.

She also said that she liked using waste materials in her decorations but no one realised until she pointed out herself that she had used pumice stones in one of her pieces and that dried rose petals in her peacock piece were actually onion peels!

HOME p17 before the invention of toothpaste, in medieval times people used rough objects like crushed eggshells and pumice stones to brush their teeth - no wonder they were normally rotten!

More consumers are using natural cleaning products such as borax and pumice stones, according to Riedel Marketing Group's Housewares TrendTracker 2014 survey.

Amongst the other finds on the site were dozens of machine gun casings, other artillery shells and everyday items such as German army medicine bottles, pumice stones and coffee cups.