CRUSHING BORT

  

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CRUSHING BORT

Specialty Definition: CRUSHING BORT

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Mining

Diamond material with radial or confused crystal structure lacking distinct cleavage forms. Color is faintly milky to grayish or dark and is suitable only for crushing into grit powder or dust. The Bakwanga Mine, Republic of the Congo, is the principal source of this material. Diamond fragments from cutting establishments or recovered from waste arefrequently classed as crushing bort. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CRUSHING BORT

Specialty definitions using "CRUSHING BORT": natural diamond. (references)

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Anagrams: CRUSHING BORT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-g-h-i-n-o-r-r-s-t-u"

-3 letters: chorusing, obscuring.

-4 letters: bighorns, birrotch, botching, broguish, bronchus, brushing, burritos, bursting, chousing, churring, cothurni, cothurns, coursing, courting, cribrous, crushing, crusting, curbings, hocusing, outgrins, outrings, rousting, ruchings, ructions, scouring, scouting, shorting, shouting, sourcing, southing, subtonic, torching, touching, tourings, tricorns, unbright.

-5 letters: bicrons, bighorn, bigshot, borings, borscht, bousing, brights, bronchi, brought, brucins, bruting, brutish, burnish.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CRUSHING BORT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 52 55 53 48 49 4E 47      42 4F 52 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01010010 01010101 01010011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000010 01001111 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#85 &#83 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#66 &#79 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 0055 0053 0048 0049 004E 0047      0042 004F 0052 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3752555342434841236495254

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1. Crosswords
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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