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Friable
Friable meaning
Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder. | Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency. | Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
Example sentences (8)
We have defined the remediation works as the removal of all non-friable and friable asbestos from the building, with the goal of certifying the building as asbestos safe.
In many cases, this causes the structure of the material to become softer or more friable – meat becomes cooked and is more friable and less flexible.
So in April it’s a sair fecht driving a reluctant fork into concrete-like ground and trying to create friable soil out of the dry sods I’ve produced.
Health and Environment (CDPHE) review a Modification to the Engineering Design and Operations Plan (EDOP) for Wray Gulch Landfill to accept friable asbestos, a new waste stream.
C. sativus prefers friable, loose, low-density, well-watered, and well-drained clay- calcareous soils with high organic content.
Rosemary grows on friable loam soil with good drainage in an open, sunny position.
The drought dried the topsoil and over time it became friable, reduced to a powdery consistency in some places.
The principal rock of kimberlite is a dark bluish-green serpentine-rich breccia (blue-ground) which when thoroughly oxidized and weathered becomes a friable brown or yellow mass (the "yellow-ground").