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If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud, there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals.
The basic drillability exponent was published in 1966 by Jorden & Shirley relating the action of tricone bit teeth to an inherent characteristic of the roc, the drillability, or 'd' :