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Summary Soil friability is defined and a method for its measurement is developed from the theory of brittle fracture of soil aggregates. The variation in friability with soil water content is in good agreement with the results of tillage experiments done by earlier workers. It is found that Urrbrae and Strathalbyn sandy loams are most friable at water contents approximately equal to their Casagrande Plastic Limits. The method is applied to study the effects of wetting and drying cycles, freezing and thawing cycles, and phosphoric acid treatment on the friability of the Urrbrae soil. It is found that all of these treatments increase soil friability as defined.
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