Examples of 'friable' in a sentence
Meaning of "friable"
friable (adjective) - Meaning easily crumbled or broken down into smaller fragments. This term is often used in geology to describe rocks or minerals that can be easily disintegrated or pulverized
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- Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- Loose and large-grained in consistency.
- Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
- Smooth: that factors completely into small prime numbers.
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friable
Friable tumor near the ampulla of vater.
Suitable for snow or friable light materials.
Friable loamy soil rich in humus is ideal.
I told myself the varices were too friable.
The soil is friable and appears to be fertile.
White or slightly yellow powder or friable mass.
The calluses are friable and relatively chlorophyllaceous.
White or cream coloured powder or friable solid.
These are friable and weathered rock and overburden.
The rip was of mudstone and was fairly friable.
It is friable and therefore unsuitable for building purposes.
Fixing peg for use in friable materials.
Such friable coatings are described hereinafter.
Removal or cleanup of small quantities of friable asbestos.
It is also more friable and less resistant to rain.
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This involves the removal of friable asbestos.
It keeps soil friable and acts as a soil conditioner.
It is known to add agents so as to prepare a friable bale.
It also appears as a friable brown substance.
The latter type is sometimes referred to as friable.
Aerogels are often friable but are typically structurally strong.
This phenomenon is technically described as being a friable aggregate.
The material is friable but slippery.
It is also relatively hard and not friable.
The result was a friable solid mass.
Can not because the tissue is too friable.
Hard and friable in the mouth.
Crocidolite commonly occurs as soft friable fibers.
Aggregate particles that are friable or capable of being split are undesirable.
Crocidolite commonly occurs as soft friable fibres.
Manipulation of friable products may be an important source of chrysotile emission.
The feed stuff is produced as a friable product.
The crown is friable and needs pinching of young shoots.
The soil at seeding should be moist and friable.
Screw anchor for friable material.
Every bit of tissue around her ovaries is friable.
The second type is friable asbestos.
Asbestos is most hazardous when it is friable.
Anchor bolt for friable material.
And her pancreas was really friable.
Clotting strengthens this friable plug with production of fibrin.
Soil choose moderately nutritious friable.
The opposite of friable is indurate.
The carbon of the mineral material is therefore friable.
Very hard and markedly friable in the mouth.
The highly absorptive structures are crumbly and friable.
The product is much too friable to allow it to be used as a stick.
Lyse gulligbrunt powder or friable block.
Any friable asbestos must be removed by qualified asbestos removalists.
There is no way of knowing how friable your tissue is.
