What are LED light bulbs made of?
LED light bulbs take LED, printed circuit board, aluminum, solder, adhesive and polycarbonate directly. Trace them back and you pass 47 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Water through adhesive
- Bauxite through LED, gallium
- Zinc ore through LED, indium
- Natural gas through LED, plastic
- Air through LED, ammonia
- Gold ore through LED, gold
- Copper ore through solder, copper
- Silica sand through printed circuit board, fiberglass
- Limestone through printed circuit board, fiberglass
- Tin ore through solder, tin
- Lead ore through solder, silver
- Silver ore through solder, silver
- Rock salt through polycarbonate, chlorine
- Sulfur through LED, indium, sulfuric acid
- Trona through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash
- Corn through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 41 things
Metals 8
Chemicals and fuels 21
AmmoniaHydrogenPetroleum cokeParaffin waxPhenolPropyleneAcetoneCaustic sodaChlorineSulfuric acidQuicklimeNaphthaEthyleneOxygen gasSoda ashMethanolNitric acidBenzeneCarbon dioxideFormaldehydeToluene