What are brake pads made of?
Brake pads take 7 things directly, among them sheet steel, adhesive, phenol, copper, phenolic resin and kevlar. Trace them back and you pass 43 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Water through paint
- Air through copper
- Copper ore through copper
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Sulfur through kevlar, sulfuric acid
- Natural gas through kevlar, ammonia
- Rock salt through kevlar, chlorine
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Limestone through sheet steel, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through sheet steel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through sheet steel, steel, manganese
- Coal through paint, titanium dioxide, coke
- Quartz through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 36 things
Metals 7
Chemicals and fuels 24
Paraffin waxBenzenePropyleneOxygen gasSulfuric acidFormaldehydePara-xyleneAmmoniaChlorineTitanium dioxidePigmentQuicklimeArgonEthyleneMethanolAcetoneCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenNaphthaTolueneCarbon blackPropaneCharcoal