Put the bort on the steel plate; smear a little butter over the bort to prevent the broken pieces flying away.
In trade, the term bort is extended to all small and impure diamonds, and crystalline fragments of diamond, useless as gem-stones.
The typical bort occurs in small spherical masses, of greyish colour, rough or drusy on the surface, and showing on fracture a radiate crystalline structure.
This bort is crushed in steel mortars to form diamond powder, which is largely used in lapidaries' work.
Much of the bort consists of irregular aggregates of imperfect crystals.
For rock drills, and revolving saws for stone cutting, either diamond, bort or carbonado is employed, set in steel tubes, disks or bands.
Both bort and carbonado seem to be really aggregates of crystallized diamond, but the carbonado is so nearly structureless that it was till recently regarded as an amorphous modification of carbon.
The employment of powdered bort and the lapidary's wheel for faceting diamonds was introduced by L.
I got indignunt, cos they was ntirely too fresh, so me & Jimmy run on ahed of em, and sprinkled the strete with torpedoes wot we bort a purpose.
So this mornin we drest up in our Sunday-skule cloes, and went down town to the property shop, and each bort ourselves a false mustash and canes.
The two latter are rarely transparent and grade into the varieties known as bort and carbonado, which have no value as gems but are highly important for industrial purposes.
The massive forms of the Diamond known as bort and carbonado possess little or no cleavage, thus increasing their value as abrasives and for setting in drills, saws, etc.
The true bort occurs as rounded forms made up of a confused aggregate of crystals and is harder than ordinary Diamond.
Fragments of crystals of no value as gems or any crude Diamond dust are also known as bort in trade.
It was honest of Mrs. Bort to refuse to accept money which she thought might be the proceeds of burglary.
If she could get Mrs. Bort away to some remote spot as soon as might be, she gained no small advantage in her race against time and George Neston.
The governing fact in the situation, the fact that Neaera did not see her way to meet, was that Mrs. Bort was an honest woman.
Neaera could not afford to pity the hapless wights over whom Mrs. Bort would rule.
There was a little scuffle; then the door flew open, and Mrs. Bort appeared, with Neaera clinging helplessly about her knees.
It was also generous of Neaera to send Mrs. Bort ten pounds immediately after that lady had treated her so cruelly.
Bort concludes that a daily knowledge of the relation of these centres and their areas of displacement will eventually enable skilled meteorologists to deduce the position of unknown and secondary centres.
Bort things dear and sold 'em cheap, and played the 'ankey-pankey jackass with everything we got.
And bortthis banjer, put on your best noo trousers and come right on 'ere?
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