| 1. | In 1969, General Electric adopted the name Borazon as its trademark for the material.
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| 2. | In 1969, General Electric adopted the name Borazon as its trademark for the crystal.
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| 3. | An attempt to open a sealed chamber using a Borazon drill fails to make any progress.
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| 4. | Borazon replaced aluminium oxide for grinding hardened steels owing to its superior abrasive properties, comparable to that of diamond.
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| 5. | Wentorf followed up in 1957 with his creation of Borazon, or cubic boron nitride, a material not found in nature.
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| 6. | Borazon is used industrially as a substitute for diamond where chemical reactivity or high temperature is a problem in grinding or cutting.
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| 7. | The materials in the cutters a machinist uses are most commonly high speed steel, tungsten carbide, ceramics, Borazon, and diamond.
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| 8. | Borazon was first produced in 1957 by Robert H . Wentorf, Jr ., a physical chemist working for the General Electric Company.
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| 9. | Borazon was first invented in 1957 by Robert H . Wentorf, Jr ., a physical chemist working for the General Electric Company.
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| 10. | He is best known as the inventor of cubic boron nitride ( trade name, " Borazon " ), the second-hardest material known.
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