What are container ships made of?
Container ships take steel, steel pipe, copper wire and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 29 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
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Zinc ore through steel pipe, zinc
- Copper ore through copper wire, copper
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through paint, pigment, carbon black
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
Made along the way: 25 things
Metals 8
Chemicals and fuels 15
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonTitanium dioxidePigmentPropaneSulfuric acidChlorineCarbon blackPropyleneAmmoniaMethanolCharcoalNaphthaHydrogen