Borazon

[ bawr-uh-zon, bohr- ]

Chemistry, Trademark.
  1. a brand name for a cubic, diamondlike, extremely hard form of boron nitride, obtained at high temperatures and pressures: used as an abrasive and grinding agent.

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How to use Borazon in a sentence

  • Each strand was a fine wire of two-phase material—the harder phase being Borazon, the softer being tungsten carbide.

    Thin Edge | Gordon Randall Garrett

British Dictionary definitions for borazon

borazon

/ (ˈbɔːrəˌzɒn, -zən) /


noun
  1. an extremely hard form of boron nitride

Origin of borazon

1
C20: from bor (on) + azo- + -on

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