Why would oil drillers call the Hughes Rock Bit the "rock eater"?

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Walterfaye · Answer 1 · 2021-01-04T06:03:47+0000

Hughes's two-cone rotary drill bit, nicknamed "rock eater", penetrated medium and hard rock with ten times the speed of any former bit