Sentence examples for friable materials from inspiring English sources

These more friable materials (rich in Na) can be ablated preferentially in the first stages of ablation.

A recent study of plumbers showed that many do not recognise the friable asbestos materials that they still sometimes encounter (Bard and Burdett, 2007).

Extensive sampling was performed at macroscopic examination with care to the orientation of the specimens, including necrotic areas and/or friable, loose material.

3 and 5) had marked caseonecrotic pneumonia with several foci of approximately up to 0.5 cm (No. 3) or up to 5.0 cm (No. 5) of white-yellow, friable, caseous material, which was frequently surrounded by pale firm connective tissue.

Excavation was undertaken with non-metallic tools in order to limit the possibility of recovery damage to highly fragile and friable skeletal material, and the exposure and recovery of any sediment surface was limited to the production of one or two hand-brush trays of spoil only.

Potential operating problems with friable and abrasive materials are reviewed together with comparisons with regard to both capital costs and operating costs.

A resin that has a quantity larger than 80% of the inorganic phase, is more susceptible to compromise of its mechanical and physical properties, depending on the shape, size, chemical composition and distribution of the particles, making the material friable and giving it a rough surface [9], which potentiates biofilm retention [18, 19, 21] and consequently gingival inflammation [7, 17].

Dried and in place on the truss bars, the material is friable, even dusty to the touch.

In low molecular weight material it is necessary to retain a sufficiently intact network which can orient the crystallites effectively and which prevents the material from becoming friable.

Like the post-minimal artist Eva Hesse, Deshayes plays up the tension between our porous, friable bodies and the shiny industrial materials that fill our lives.

The slope material is dominantly unconsolidated, friable sands that easily give way during intense rain.