respirable
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• adjective (of the air or a gas) able or fit to be breathed.
• (of particles in the air) able to be breathed in: woodworking can create quantities of fine respirable dust.
— origin late 18th cent. : from French respirable or late Latin respirabilis, from respirare ‘breathe out’ (see respire).
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