What are camera lenses made of?
Camera lenses take silica sand, adhesive, aluminum and polycarbonate directly. Trace them back and you pass 25 made things on the way to 10 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 10 raw materials
- Silica sand goes straight in
- Water through adhesive
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Air through polycarbonate, acetone
- Rock salt through polycarbonate, chlorine
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Limestone through aluminum, alumina, quicklime
Made along the way: 22 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 17
Paraffin waxPetroleum cokePhenolPropyleneAcetoneCaustic sodaChlorineEthyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolNitric acidHydrogenQuicklimeBenzeneNaphthaToluene