What are LCD screens made of?
LCD screens take glass, indium tin oxide, photoresist, pigment, LED and acrylic directly. Trace them back and you pass 35 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Silica sand through glass
- Limestone through glass
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Rock salt through glass, soda ash
- Water through glass, soda ash
- Trona through glass, soda ash
- Zinc ore through LED, indium
- Tin ore through indium tin oxide, tin
- Titanium ore through pigment, titanium dioxide
- Crude oil through pigment, carbon black
- Air through pigment, carbon black
- Bauxite through LED, gallium
- Natural gas through LED, plastic
- Gold ore through LED, gold
- Corn through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Coal through indium tin oxide, tin, coke
- Sugarcane through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 29 things
Metals 4
Chemicals and fuels 19
Soda ashTitanium dioxideCarbon blackAmmoniaHydrogenPropyleneSulfuric acidMethanolCarbon dioxideQuicklimePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineOxygen gasCaustic sodaNaphthaEthyleneBenzeneToluene