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Friability: the degree to which a solid is friable.


Friable

Definition: the condition of a solid when it's easy to crumble it into powder or small particles.


Example: a clump of damp sand that sticks together, but easily crushes into its individual grains.


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The occurrence of fragile, friable carbonatized quartz porphyry float and fuchsitic altered ultramafic float near the north-north-west end of the gold/quartz...
The mucosa is friable and ulcerated with large areas of confluent subepithelial hemorrhage and necrosis.
The upper portion of the sandstone is moderately to strongly bleached with numerous moderately to strongly friable sections consisting of rubble and...
Method of treating friable asbestos roofing material - Patent 4971086 (2484 words)
The present invention is based on the discovery that lipophilic materials have the capability of penetrating friable asbestos to rejuvenate the fibers and significantly reduce the friability of the asbestos material.
Although the invention is applicable to the treatment of friable asbestos materials in general, the preferred application of the invention involves the treatment and removal of roofing materials containing one or more layers of asbestos which has become friable, and the invention will be described in terms of such application.
A section of the roof, known to contain friable asbestos, in a school building in Phoenix, Arizona, was swept clean and treated with a quantity of commercial processed soybean oil at the rate of 1 ounce per square foot.
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