pumice

light coloured highly vesicular volcanic rock
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pumice

Summary

pumice ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,326 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • floating is named after pumice[2].
  • pumice is a type of volcanic rock[3].
  • pumice is a type of tephra[4].
  • pumice's Commons category is recorded as Pumice[5].
  • pumice's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[6].
  • pumice's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[7].
  • pumice's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • pumice's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • pumice's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10].
  • pumice's different from is recorded as pomace[11].
  • pumice's different from is recorded as pumice[12].
  • pumice's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000663[13].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include volcanic rock[3] and tephra[4].

Origins

floating is named after pumice[2].

Why It Matters

pumice ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,326 views/month).[1] pumice has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] pumice is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after floating
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 2709909
    Named after
    Subclass of volcanic rock, tephra
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007548550305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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