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sponge
Sign in to saveAlso known as cleaning sponge, sponge tool, kitchen sponge
cleaning tool made from soft and porous usually synthetic or rarely natural material
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- Commons category
- Cleaning sponges
- Unicode character
- 🧽
- MCN code
- 7615.10.00
- different from
- Porifera
- vocalized name
- סְפוֹג
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Encyclopedic overview
Vegetable fiber sponge: wood fiber sponge combined with scouring pad. Animal fiber sponge: A Greek natural sponge.
A sponge (/ˈspʌndʒ/ SPUNJ) is a cleaning aid made of soft, porous material. Typically used for cleaning impervious surfaces, sponges are especially good at absorbing water and water-based solutions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sponge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.