What are chainsaws made of?
Chainsaws take 7 things directly, among them magnesium, aluminum, steel, plastic, chromium and coil spring. Trace them back and you pass 42 made things on the way to 21 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 21 raw materials
- Dolomite through magnesium
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Natural gas through plastic
- Chromite through chromium
- Limestone through chromium
- Air through chromium
- Water through chromium
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Quartz through magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Rock salt through chromium, soda ash
- Trona through chromium, soda ash
- Corn through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Titanium ore through coil spring, paint, titanium dioxide
- Sugarcane through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 35 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 24
Petroleum cokeOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaEthylenePropyleneSoda ashPaintCarbon blackCharcoalCaustic sodaPropaneSulfuric acidHydrogenAmmoniaCarbon dioxideTitanium dioxidePigmentBenzeneStyreneChlorineMethanolToluene