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pumice

light coloured highly vesicular volcanic rock
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Summary

pumice ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,172 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Named after: floating[2]
  • Subclass of: volcanic rock[3], tephra[4]
  • Commons category: Pumice[5]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[6], Pauly–Wissowa[7], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10]
  • Different from: pomace[11], pumice[12]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000663[13]

Why It Matters

pumice has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] pumice is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  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. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q298084
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q298084, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  2. 20w 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 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007548550305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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