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Lapilli

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(pl. of Ital. lapillo, from Lat. lapillus, dim. of lapis, a stone), a name applied to small fragments of lava ejected from a volcano. They are generally subangular in shape and vesicular in structure, varying in size from a pea to a walnut. In the Neapolitan dialect the word becomes rapilli - a form sometimes used by English writers on volcanoes. (See VOLCANOES.)

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Lapilli'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​l/lapilli.html. 1910.
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