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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 199 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAPILLI (pl. of Ital. lapillo, from
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Lat. lapillus, dim. of lapis, a
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stone)  , a name applied to small fragments of
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lava ejected from a
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volcano . They are generally subangular in shape and vesicular in structure, varying in
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size from a
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pea to a
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walnut . In the Neapolitan
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dialect the word becomes rapilli—a
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form sometimes used by
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English writers on volcanoes .

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