What are kitchen knives made of?
Kitchen knives take stainless steel and lumber directly. Trace them back and you pass 20 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Timber through lumber
- Chromite through stainless steel, chromium
- Limestone through stainless steel, chromium
- Air through stainless steel, argon
- Water through stainless steel, chromium
- Nickel ore through stainless steel, nickel
- Natural gas through stainless steel, steel scrap, propane
- Crude oil through stainless steel, steel scrap, propane
- Coal through stainless steel, chromium, aluminum
- Rock salt through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash
- Trona through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash
- Sulfur through stainless steel, nickel, sulfuric acid
- Corn through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through stainless steel, chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses