friable

How To Use friable In A Sentence

• Its volcanic composition makes the rock loose and friable, and likely to pull away in your hand at the slightest provocation.
• As to the speed of cutting, in the experiment quoted a bit of rather friable "gabbro," measuring three-quarters of an inch on the face by five-eighths of an inch thick, was cut clean through in six minutes, or by 3000 turns of the wheel. On Laboratory Arts
• The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, having no longer an underpinning, gave way. Les Miserables
• Mine don't really hurt, though I've been told I have a "friable" cervix that was fun to hear, and the pap smear always just makes me cringe up - it's not so much that it hurts as much as that it just feels wrong wrong wrong... One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited
• When freshly collected, laumontite is colorless and quite hard; however, once dry, it crumbles and becomes friable and white.
• We are incredibly lucky with the friable, chocolatey soil we inherited from Mary's late husband Don to which we add biodynamic prep 500, cow manure mulch and regular dosings of comfrey and nettles. Get set, go
• Structurally, therefore, these isles are a continuation of Land's End, but the granite has become less consistent and more friable; it is largely broken into felspar, quartz, and mica, with schorl, chlorite, and hornblende. The Cornwall Coast
• Originally vegetation held the friable, highly-weathered schist in place, but brush clearance and cut-and-fill construction have destabilised the densely inhabited hillsides.
• Kokam butter, as found in the bazaars of India, consists of egg-shaped or concavo-convex cakes of a dirty white or yellowish colour, friable, crystalline, and with a greasy feel like spermaceti.
• The hornfels can be very friable, as are the sakura ishi, which makes it easy to find nice crystal sections but difficult to collect matrix specimens.