Easily crumbled Healthy soil is friable, so if you hold up a handful of soil and wiggle your fingers the particles of soil should fall out of your hand
When referring to a building material means that the material, when dry, may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure, and includes previously nonfriable material after such previously nonfriable material becomes damaged to the extent that when dry it may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure
A type of soil consistence in which the soil ped "pops" when squeezed between the thumb and fore finger withjust a small amount of pressure