The tendency of a coal to crumble or break into small pieces.

The tendency of a granule to crumble, breaking down into smaller particles.

Fragile, easily irritated, especially prone to bleeding; for example, cervical surface tissue in some chlamydial infections.

excessive breakableness

Friability essentially means crumbability. That is to say that a substance can be reduced to fibers or finer particles by the action of pressure on its mass. The term is commonly used in reference to asbestos which is brittle enough to be reduced to small particles upon application of pressure.

Characteristic of material that describes its resistance to breakage.

An expression of the ability of ion exchange beads to resist cracking under hydrostatic operation.

A type of packaging test. This test ensures that the product will maintain integrity during packaging and shipping.