What is brass made of?
Brass takes copper, zinc, lead, tin and aluminum directly. Trace them back and you pass 12 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Copper ore through copper
- Water through copper
- Air through zinc
- Zinc ore through zinc
- Lead ore through lead
- Tin ore through tin
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Sulfur through zinc, sulfuric acid
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Rock salt through aluminum, alumina, caustic soda
- Limestone through aluminum, alumina, quicklime