friability
Americannoun
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Its modes, attributes, properties, accidents, or affections,—use which term you will,—are whiteness, friability, cylindrical shape, insolubility in water, etc., etc.
From Pragmatism by William James
This causes friability, and facilitates the subsequent comminution.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
The ordinary rubber corks and those made of cork-bark should not be used because of their friability, and the possible aspiration of a fragment into the bronchus, where rubber particles form very irritant foreign bodies.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Compare pastry that is made with lard, lard substitutes, vegetable oils and butter, as to taste, appearance, flakiness or friability, and tenderness.
From School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
On seizing the wall one of these vessels burst, and the hemorrhage was only rendered greater on attempting to secure it, so great was the friability of the walls.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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