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Definition of Friability
1. Noun. Excessive breakableness.
Definition of Friability
1. Noun. The quality of being friable, or easily broken, crumbled, or reduced to powder; friableness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Friability
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Friability
Literary usage of Friability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1909)
"Preliminary breaking is done by: blasting in the mine; calcining for friability,
with or without quenching; by sledging, spalling, and cobbing hammers; ..."
2. European Agriculture and Rural Economy by Henry Colman (1851)
"CONSISTENCY AND friability OF SOILS.—- The next point to be considered, in the
character of a soil, is its consistency or friability. ..."
3. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1903)
"Preliminary crashing is done by: blasting in the mine; calcining for friability,
with or without quenching; by sledging, spalling and cobbing hammers; ..."
4. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"CALCINING FOR friability, WITH OR WITHOUT QUENCHING BY WATER. —When an ore is
heated by fire the minerals are cracked and fissured in all directions by the ..."
5. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1875)
"PEIZE FOR AX ESSAY ON TIIE HARDNESS AND friability OF STEEL. The Academy of
Sciences of Berlin has offered a prize of $200, payable July, 1876, ..."
6. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1840)
"Observations on the increased friability of the Lungs in the first Stage of
Pneumonia. By ROBERT ELLIOTT LINDSAY. THE only apology that may be requisite for ..."
7. A Treatise on Ore and Stone Mining by Clement Le Neve Foster (1905)
"(7) friability.—Some minerals are more easily crumbled and reduced to powder than
others, and if the difference in friability is great, it is possible after ..."
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