What are microchips made of?
Microchips take 7 things directly, among them silicon wafer, oxygen gas, photoresist, tin, copper and aluminum. Trace them back and you pass 30 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Quartz through silicon wafer
- Air through copper
- Tin ore through tin
- Copper ore through copper
- Water through gold
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Gold ore through gold
- Sulfur through copper, sulfuric acid
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Limestone through gold, quicklime
- Zinc ore through gold, zinc
- Rock salt through gold, chlorine
- Timber through silicon wafer, polysilicon, metallurgical silicon
- Natural gas through silicon wafer, polysilicon, hydrogen
Made along the way: 23 things
Metals 3
Chemicals and fuels 16
ArgonSulfuric acidPetroleum cokeQuicklimeChlorineHydrochloric acidHydrogenPhenolFormaldehydeCaustic sodaCharcoalBenzenePropyleneMethanolNaphthaToluene