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A minor or inconsequential item or aspect.
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Friable means to be easily crumbled into a powder. A friable surface in painting would indicate that it is chalky or peeling in such a way that the paint will not adhere to the substrate. You need to remove/clean the friable surface appropriately or you will find that the paint sticks to the decomposing surface and not to the underlying item that is expected to be painted. In a short period of time the new coating will begin to flake off.
Before industrialization, each item was one of a kind, unique, the product of a crafts-person. After, the items are made with interchangeable parts on an assembly line by semiskilled labor. The cost went down as a result.