What are light switches made of?
Light switches take brass, copper, silver, steel wire, plastic and screw directly. Trace them back and you pass 30 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
How light switches are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Copper ore through silver
- Water through copper
- Air through copper
- Silver ore through silver
- Lead ore through silver
- Zinc ore through silver
- Natural gas through plastic
- Tin ore through brass, tin
- Crude oil through brass, aluminum
- Coal through brass, aluminum
- Sulfur through silver, sulfuric acid
- Limestone through silver, quicklime
- Bauxite through brass, aluminum, alumina
- Iron ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Dolomite through steel wire, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Rock salt through brass, aluminum, alumina, caustic soda
- Quartz through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 24 things
Metals 11
Chemicals and fuels 12
Oxygen gasSulfuric acidQuicklimeNaphthaEthylenePropylenePetroleum cokeArgonHydrogenCaustic sodaPropaneCharcoal
Electronics 1
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.