The word 'friable' is a correct and usable word in written English.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, 'friable' means easily crumbled or reduced to powder. It is typically used to describe something that is easily broken apart or falls apart into small pieces. Example: The old book was so friable that every time I opened it, pages would crumble in my hands. In this example, 'friable' is used to describe the delicate and easily crumbled state of the old book.
But, to be truthful, it wasn't this that held me in true rapture at the time, it was the man walking along the beach with ice creams and fruits encased in a friable coating of caramel as delicate as a butterfly's wing, crying out "ArroriviagelatievitaminiBB".
SOUTH Korea's alliance with America long seemed one of the bedrocks of an otherwise friable world.
Tales of confrontation abound: A driver with a "Recall Walker" bumper sticker might be tailed on the highway then passed in the adjacent lane by someone holding up a "Fuck the Recall" sign.This Iowan isn't a bit surprised to hear that Wisconsin's cordiality is so friable, but it's sad all the same.
Opaline silica is a friable hydrous silica found near hot springs and geysers.
Postmenopausal estrogen also prevents atrophic vaginitis, in which the vaginal mucosa becomes thin and friable.
Thus, the farmer usually attempts tillage of such soils only after a slow rain has moistened the clods and made them friable.
In southwestern Russia, in portions of the Transcaucasus region, and especially in Ukraine, some soils that have been formed in areas of grass steppe are chernozems (black earths)—deep, friable, humus-rich, and renowned for their fertility.
Here an initial two- to four-inch coat proved so successful in stabilizing hard, blocky shale and in preventing raveling in friable (crumbly) conglomerate and sandstone that the shotcrete was thickened to six inches in the arch and four inches on the walls to form the permanent support, saving about 75 percent of the cost of the original steel ribs and concrete lining.
Sidewinding, which is also used when the locomotor surface fails to provide a rigid frictional base, is a specific adaptation for crawling over friable sandy soils.
It is a burrower that is found in areas of friable and sandy soils.
Some lizards and snakes that live in an arid environment can swim through friable sand, which is compact but lacks strong cohesiveness.
