friable

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.

To survive their fall to Earth, meteorites have to be dense and durable, unlike the friable mix seen by the two missions, says Yurimoto Hisayoshi, a planetary scientist at Hokkaido University who has led analysis of the Ryugu samples.

They are fleeting and friable.

It is only when the image flips, when reality goes into reverse, that we sense how delicate and friable — and how compulsively romantic — are our constructions of reality.

In 1936, the name "Ehlers-Danlos syndrome" was proposed and three cardinal symptoms were identified: joints had to be overly bendy, and skin had to be both stretchy and unusually "friable", meaning it crumbled easily.