Pumice can be light enough to float — ChillScroll

A pale porous pumice stone floating on clear turquoise water

Pumice can be light enough to float

Pumice is volcanic glass filled with many small cavities left by gas bubbles in erupting magma. With so much of its volume made of sealed spaces, a piece can be buoyant in water.

It is a rock so full of tiny bubbles that it can go for a float.

Source · U.S. National Park Service ↗