(1) And it also gave me a chance to enthuse (not that I take much prompting) about how lucky I am to have such friable soil.(2) When freshly collected, laumontite is colorless and quite hard; however, once dry, it crumbles and becomes friable and white.(3) It is especially useful for objects with high water content, such as grapes, and friable objects that may otherwise disintegrate when grasped with forceps.(4) Ants love sandy soil so if you add plenty of humus, such as compost, you'll end up with dark, moist, friable soil and no ants.(5) There was asbestos in the ceilings of the basement, which now may be friable .(6) This material, which is colored whitish or grey to yellow-orange, is so light and friable that specimens crumble under finger pressure.(7) Regrettably, Messenia's alkaline soils cause most imported pottery to lose its surface slip over time, while the vessels manufactured in the friable local clays do not hold their original slips well to begin with.(8) The best form of winter protection is to mound up each plant at its base with loose, friable soil that drains well.(9) The source of the conglomerate is believed to have been southerly, where an unweathered friable rhyolite was water-transported with minor abrasion.(10) What's left is recognisable as human bones, though they're very friable .(11) Originally vegetation held the friable , highly-weathered schist in place, but brush clearance and cut-and-fill construction have destabilised the densely inhabited hillsides.(12) An unimaginable wealth of fertile topsoil in most parts of the country, this is shallow by Iowa standards, where in some areas the fine, friable soil goes down 20 feet.(13) Its volcanic composition makes the rock loose and friable , and likely to pull away in your hand at the slightest provocation.(14) Menaker said the turbine is ÔÇÿcovered with friable asbestos and is right now a hazardous work site.ÔÇÖ(15) Porous, relatively soft, fine-textured and somewhat friable , chalk normally is white and consists almost wholly of calcium carbonate as the common mineral calcite.(16) Molasse is a dialect word used by French-speaking farmers in western Switzerland to describe soft, friable sandstones.
