friable
- Adjective. Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- Adjective. (context, of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
- Adjective. (context, of poison) Likely to crumble and become [[airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
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