pumice
noun
a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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The upper Piton is unfitted for retaining water, which must percolate through its cinders, pumices, and loose matter into many a reservoir formed by blowing-holes.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton