Adjective : friable rock.    From Dictionary.com. 

I know, would be changed into a perfect friability.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference

Compare pastry that is made with lard, lard substitutes, vegetable oils and butter, as to taste, appearance, flakiness or friability, and tenderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [School and Home Cooking] Reference

On light soils, on the contrary, whose friability and openness are already too great, and which do not require to be increased, the manure will be best applied in a rotten condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The shade furnished by the clover also furthers friability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference

For general obfervations on the friability of the Norfolk foils, fee Min.    From Wordnik.com.  [The rural economy of Norfolk: : comprising the management of landed estates, and the present practice of husbandry in that county.] Reference

And all of a sudden in the 20th century came the discovery of its fragility and friability.    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

A great drawback to the usefulness of most kinds of peat-fuel, lies in their great friability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel] Reference

It also has the capability to test friability, tablet hardness, disintegration and Brookfield viscosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food IngredientsFIrst News] Reference

This friability makes the land easier to work, and it is also more easily penetrated by the roots of plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference

Air in itself is, owing to its friability, quite soundless; only when its dissipation is prevented is its movement sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [ON THE SOUL] Reference

Best results arise from a two metre vertical interval between hedges, but this depends on the degree of slope and the friability of the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Permaculture Research Institute of Australia] Reference

Incorporated into top soil, remarkable water and nutrient retention are claimed, as is friability usually associated with high organic matter soils.    From Wordnik.com.  [FWi - All News] Reference

Now it was very early seen that all we know of the chalk is the whiteness, friability, etc., all WE KNOW of the wood is the combustibility and fibrous structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatism] Reference

It may be plowed under sufficiently early to admit of this, and when so buried it aids in making a fine seed-bed, since the roots promote friability in the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference

On seizing the wall one of these vessels burst, and the hemorrhage was only rendered greater on attempting to secure it, so great was the friability of the walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The structure and the friability (crumbliness - think of Cadbury's Flake) of the topsoil is largely determined by levels of calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium and hydrogen.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

It may be distinguished from the less dangerous tumors by its softness, friability, and great vascularity, bleeding on the slightest touch, as well as by its anatomical structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

The inner coat (tunica intima) can be separated from the middle by a little maceration, or it may be stripped off in small pieces; but, on account of its friability, it cannot be separated as a complete membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. Introduction] Reference

The ordinary rubber corks and those made of cork-bark should not be used because of their friability, and the possible aspiration of a fragment into the bronchus, where rubber particles form very irritant foreign bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference

But, stimulated by the encouragement of their French engineer, they continued to advance their mine towards the wall, until, from the friability of the soil through which it passed, it fell in, and all their labor was lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First White Man of the West]

But already a certain friability was coming over the party, Birkin was mad with irritation, Halliday was turning in an insane hatred against Gerald, the Pussum was becoming hard and cold, like a flint knife, and Halliday was laying himself out to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

The bully or balata tree of British Guiana, which furnishes a gum somewhat intermediate between India rubber and gutta-percha, being nearly as elastic as the first without the brittleness and friability of the latter, and requiring a high temperature to melt or soften it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference

Deposit soils, such as are found in the bottom lands of rivers and streams, vary much in the suitability for growing clover, owing to the great differences in the compositions; but since they are usually possessed of sufficient friability, fertility and moisture, good crops of clover may generally be grown upon them where the climatic conditions are suitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference

C. increase soil's organic matter content up to 30 tons or more per hectare, thereby improving topsoil depth, water-holding capacity, nutrient content, friability and soil texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

2) They add many tons of organic matter to the soil, thereby improving topsoil depth, water-holding capacity, nutrient content, friability, and texture of the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [6: Soil health and plant nutrition] Reference

2) They add many tons of organic matter to the soil, thereby improving topsoil depth, water - holding capacity, nutrient content, friability, and texture of the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture] Reference

Its modes, attributes, properties, accidents, or affections, -- use which term you will, -- are whiteness, friability, cylindrical shape, insolubility in water, etc., etc. But the bearer of these attributes is so much chalk, which thereupon is called the substance in which they inhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatism] Reference

A philosopher; who, whatever substantial forms he may talk of, has no other idea of those substances, than what is framed by a collection of those simple ideas which are to be found in them: only we must take notice, that our complex ideas of substances, besides all those simple ideas they are made up of, have always the confused idea of something to which they belong, and in which they subsist: and therefore when we speak of any sort of substance, we say it is a thing having such or such qualities; as body is a thing that is extended, figured, and capable of motion; spirit, a thing capable of thinking; and so hardness, friability, and power to draw iron, we say, are qualities to be found in a loadstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference