Bort

For the fictional name, see Made-up words in The Simpsons.

For the town in France, see Bort-les-Orgues.

Bort or Boart is a term used in the diamond industry to refer to shards of gem-grade/quality diamonds. In the manufacturing and heavy industries, "bort" is used to describe dark, imperfectly formed/crystallized diamonds of varying levels of opacity.

Small bort crystals are used in drill bits.

The lowest grade, "crushing bort", is crushed by steel mortars and used to make industrial-grade abrasive grits.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo provides 75% of the world supply of crushing bort.

References

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A word often used to convey a solecism or incongruity made famous by Cincinnati Gothic house "The Hive" (Ryan "Malathion" Lesher and Jaesyn Acheta.)

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