friable
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But one piece of the more concerning friable asbestos - which can be easily crushed into a powder - was found at a public park in suburb Surry Hills.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024
McCarron noted that the friable clay we were walking on would fall apart underfoot in the dry summer months.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
“The Feral Detective” enters that darker realm as soon as Phoebe and Heist venture into the friable wilderness far outside L.A.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2018
Early Americans drained these swamps to acquire civilization’s most essential resource: tillable land with friable soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2016
Now there were open fields among the lakes and forests, fields with the crumbly friable soil potatoes love.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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