Friable Definition

frīə-bəl
adjective
Easily crumbled or crushed into powder.
Webster's New World

(of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.

Wiktionary

(of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.

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Origin of Friable

  • Latin friābilis from friāre to crumble

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin friābilis, from friō (“to crumble”).

    From Wiktionary

Friable Sentence Examples

  • When heated to nearly a red heat it gives a porous friable mass which is known as "burnt alum."

  • The eastern portion of the county is generally of a light friable soil; the southern portion rocky and barren, with but little bog except in the neighbourhood of Newtown-Hamilton.

  • In each province they had found the best springs, beds of clay, paint, soapstone, flinty rock, friable stone for sculpture and hard, tenacious stone for tools, and used ashes for salt.

  • The soil generally is a sandy loam or a strong but friable clay, and very fertile.

  • It forms a white friable mass which after ignition is insoluble in acids.

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