Boron Carbide and Boron Nitride (Electronic book text)

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Although both boron carbide and boron nitride were first produced one hundred years ago, it is only in recent years that they have been exploited commercially.
Boron carbide has a raw material market value in excess of US$40 million, and the report covers its use as a neutron absorber and lapping powder, together with its various specialist applications that include the boron carbide/carbon thermocouple, armour and nozzle material.
Boron nitride, with its own market value of some US$12 million, comes in various forms - as an ultrahard abrasive and cutting tool material, as a readily machinable ceramic for continuous casting and other components, and as an intermetallic for vacuum metallising. Its main use, however, - a market with a value of in excess of US$5 million - is as pyrolytic crucibles for growing gallium arsenide and other semi-conductor single crystals.
This diverse study covers the uses of both materials and contains information on the different forms of boron carbide and boron nitride, their sources, the method of production of grains, powders and crystals, fibres, components, composites and coatings; the world production in both boron carbon and boron nitride, together with details of consumption in the major consuming countries and by the major end-uses. The activities of 250 companies and organisations in this area are detailed, together with the prices of grains, powders, composites and components.
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