When they went to work in the garden, they found that the soil was very friable and easy to work. From LearnThat.org.
friable sandstone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : friable rock. From Dictionary.com.
And then there's non-friable, which is generally found on the inside and does become easily airborne. From Wordnik.com. [TOP STORIES - YNN, Your News Now] Reference
There's friable, which is generally found on the outside of the buildings and doesn't become easily airborne. From Wordnik.com. [TOP STORIES - YNN, Your News Now] Reference
Given that the manganese is very friable, that is, crumbly, we think that this technique will work. ". From Wordnik.com. [News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference
The kind of asbestos most commonly referenced is "friable" asbestos, which is defined by EPA as asbestos that can be reduced to dust by hand pressure. From Wordnik.com. [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference
Is the soil equally friable at different times of the year?. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons on Soil] Reference
The outer coating of the bran is hard and more or less friable. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
It opens up their pores to the air, and renders them more friable. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Fall of small, friable, vesicular masses, from size of a pea to size of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The grave was a shallow one, the freshly turned mould loose and friable. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
The same field, well drained, is friable and porous, and uniform in texture. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Here the cinders are soft and friable, and the cone is a prettily shaped dome. From Wordnik.com. [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference
A deep red colour can be got from the dull grey friable Lichen, common on old stone walls. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
Here the people lived in underground houses -- chambers hewn from the friable volcanic cinders. From Wordnik.com. [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference
The salt was from fifteen to twenty feet below the surface, and the overlying soil was soft and friable. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Menaker said the Daura turbine is "covered with friable asbestos and is right now a hazardous work site.". From Wordnik.com. [The $87 Billion Money Pit] Reference
Make the surface of the soil light and friable, and sow the seeds in very shallow drills six inches apart. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
When fully saturated, the fabric is allowed to remain until the vegetable fibers are sufficiently friable. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883] Reference
The whole mass is very friable, and in every direction the soft rock is hollowed out into sepulchral caves. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
It should be deeply ploughed, and the surface afterwards made fine and friable by being thoroughly harrowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Subsoil is rather more important than surface soil, although the latter should be friable and easily worked. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
Sinking a shaft, he found that the limestone grew so soft and friable that it could be easily dug out with a pick. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
This soil is well drained and aerated and friable to a considerable depth, thus permitting the trees to root deeply. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
If grown alone, however, it may be well to point out that peas do best, unlike beans, on light, friable, chalky loam. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Downs grow it well, and the trees, when planted on soil of a rich friable nature, grow to a large size and bear heavily. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
It acts on the texture of the soil, rendering clay soils more friable, and exerting a certain binding effect on loose soils. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Another reason why lime renders a clay soil more friable when dry is, that lime does not undergo any shrinkage in dry weather. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Soils of a different character must be made rich by the application of fertilizing material, and light and friable by trenching. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Most of them demand very high levels of available nutrients as well as soft, friable soil containing reasonable levels of organic matter. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Again, while wheat does well on a heavy soil, and does not require a fine surface-tilth, barley does best on a light, rich, friable soil. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
There are two kinds of granite in Corsica, one friable and unable to resist the action of the air, the other hard and defiant of the elements. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads] Reference
The wheat raised in this State was, from the climatic conditions, a spring wheat, hard in structure and having a thin, tender, and friable bran. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
The product is a white very friable powder, which if viewed under the microscope appears to be fragments of the fibre that has been used to prepare it. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
It was, however, at the best, so friable that when durability was required the copyists inserted a page of parchment between every five or six pages of the papyrus. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827] Reference
The dark-red stone of which the building was constructed is friable, and peculiarly apt to crumble under the moist atmosphere and dreary winds of the northeast coast. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
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