diamond drill
Hard-tipped borer
A diamond drill is a drill bit with industrial diamonds embedded in its cutting surface, used to bore through extremely hard materials like rock, concrete, or glass.
The diamonds provide cutting edges harder than virtually any other substance.
Diamond drills range from small bits for jewelry work to large core drills for geological sampling and mining: They used a diamond drill to extract core samples from the bedrock.
- coreCentral essential portion
- core sampleCylindrical subsurface extraction
- bitSmall amount or portion
- boreTiresome individual or drill
- bore holeDrilled geological passage
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