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What is lapilli?

What is lapilli? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A sphere shaped droplet of molten lava ejected from a volcanic eruption which falls to earth while still at least partially molten, ranging in size from 2 to 64 millimeters.
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These ejections were followed by dark sand, with lapilli and small fragments of scori of the same colour.
Mount Vesuvius' eruption buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in volcanic ash and lapilli, preserving it in its current ghost-town-like state.
There was no pumice shown to me, but the dust and lapilli all seemed to be composed of comminuted old rock.
With the lapilli, and sometimes without them, the smoke carried a very minute dust or sand, which is generally called ashes.
A cubic mile of material is said to have been thrown out in the form of lapilli and dust by the successive explosions.
Projections are defined according to their size: higher than 64 mm for the blocks, of 2mm to 64 mm for the lapilli, and less than 2 mm for ashes.

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