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    Bort is an umbrella term used in the diamond industry to refer to non-gem quality diamonds that are often dark, imperfectly formed, and varying levels of opacity. Bort comes in different grades with the lowest grade called "crushing bort" which is crushed and used for industrial abrasives. Small bort crystals are used in drill bits. The Democratic Republic of the Congo provides 75% of the world's supply of crushing bort. Bort has various industrial uses including as an additive to lubricants to decrease friction and extend the life of tools.

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    Bort is an umbrella term used in the diamond industry to refer to non-gem quality diamonds that are often dark, imperfectly formed, and varying levels of opacity. Bort comes in different grades with the lowest grade called "crushing bort" which is crushed and used for industrial abrasives. Small bort crystals are used in drill bits. The Democratic Republic of the Congo provides 75% of the world's supply of crushing bort. Bort has various industrial uses including as an additive to lubricants to decrease friction and extend the life of tools.

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    Bort is an umbrella term used in the diamond industry to refer to non-gem quality diamonds that are often dark, imperfectly formed, and varying levels of opacity. Bort comes in different grades with the lowest grade called "crushing bort" which is crushed and used for industrial abrasives. Small bort crystals are used in drill bits. The Democratic Republic of the Congo provides 75% of the world's supply of crushing bort. Bort has various industrial uses including as an additive to lubricants to decrease friction and extend the life of tools.

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    Bort

    Bort, boart, or boort is an umbrella term


    used in the diamond industry to refer to
    shards of non-gem-grade/quality
    diamonds. In the manufacturing and
    heavy industries, "bort" is used to
    describe dark, imperfectly formed or
    crystallized diamonds of varying levels of
    opacity. The lowest grade, "crushing
    bort," is crushed by steel mortars and
    used to make industrial-grade abrasive
    grits. Small bort crystals are used in drill
    bits. The Democratic Republic of the
    Congo provides 75% of the world supply
    of crushing bort.[1][2][3]
    Bort
    (also boort or boart)

    A mixture of bort and gem diamonds (larger


    inclusions) from the Crater of Diamonds State
    Park

    General

    Category Mineral variety

    Formula C
    (repeating unit)

    Identification

    Color varies (white to


    yellowish in powder
    form, yellow to

    brownish in larger
    shards)

    Use/purpose Diamond industry


    Abrasive
    Polishing
    Lubricant (as oil
    additive)

    Major varieties

    Similar occurrences Diamond


    Ballas
    Graphite
    Carbon
    Carbonado
    Coal
    Bort-like heavily twinned diamond from Congo

    Use and application


    Apart from the use of bort in the
    diamond gem industry, where the
    material is used as an abrasive —with a
    hardness close to or the same as that of
    diamond itself— to scour and polish the
    various facets of gem stones, in smaller
    flakes and particles it is also used as an
    additive for scouring or polishing pastes
    and agents. Larger particles find their
    use as a protective and cutting edge to
    drill bits, saws and other (cutting) tools
    and machinery for longer lifespan and to
    substantially increase their efficiency (for
    instance, for tools that drill or saw
    through (reinforced) concrete —cement,
    stone (pebbles) and steel (rebar) alike—
    or other hard materials, both metal and
    non-metal).[4]

    When bort particles varying from one to


    two nanometers[5] are added to
    lubricants such as paraffin oil, these
    particles will embed themselves into
    minute irregularities and imperfections of
    moving-part surfaces, whereas particles
    that remain suspended in the lubricant oil
    act as both a polishing agent further
    smoothening the surfaces, as well as ball
    bearings between the surfaces that move
    relative to or revolve within or around one
    another. Such nanotechnology
    applications with paraffin oil containing
    approximately 1% of these nano-size bort
    particles may decrease the friction up to
    half of that without the nano-
    particles.[6][7]

    See also

    Look up bort in Wiktionary, the free


    dictionary.

    Carbonado (black diamond)


    Synthetic diamond
    Ballas

    References

    Wikisource has the text of the 1911


    Encyclopædia Britannica article Bort.

    1. Spear, K.E; Dismukes, J.P. (1994).


    Synthetic Diamond: Emerging CVD
    Science and Technology . Wiley–
    IEEE. p. 628. ISBN 0-471-53589-3.
    Archived from the original on 2015-
    04-25.
    2. Industrial diamond . Encyclopædia
    Britannica.
    3. Bort . Encyclopædia Britannica.
    4. (2010). Minerals
    Yearbook Metals and Minerals 2010
    Volume I  . Government Printing
    Office via Google Books. pp. 21–22.
    ISBN 978-1411334496. Archived
    from the original on December 30,
    2018. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
    5. Scientific notation in SI unit(s): 1–2 ×
    10−9 m.
    6. Ballengee, Jason (2016).
    "Nanodiamond and Lubrication
    Applications" (PDF). aiche.org. SP3
    NANOTECH, LLC. Archived (PDF)
    from the original on December 5,
    2018. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
    7. , (January 6, 1997).
    "Betere smering met behulp van zeer
    fijn diamantpoeder (Better
    lubrication using diamond powder of
    very small particles)" . nrc.nl (in
    Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. Archived
    from the original on December 6,
    2018. Retrieved December 6, 2018.

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