What are microphones made of?
Microphones take 7 things directly, among them aluminum, plastic, copper wire, adhesive, neodymium magnet and polyester. Trace them back and you pass 43 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Natural gas through plastic
- Water through adhesive
- Rare earth ore through neodymium magnet
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Copper ore through solder, copper
- Air through solder, copper
- Nickel ore through neodymium magnet, nickel
- Zinc ore through neodymium magnet, zinc
- Tin ore through solder, tin
- Lead ore through solder, silver
- Silver ore through solder, silver
- Rock salt through aluminum, alumina, caustic soda
- Limestone through aluminum, alumina, quicklime
- Sulfur through solder, copper, sulfuric acid
- Corn through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 36 things
Metals 8
Chemicals and fuels 21
Petroleum cokeNaphthaEthylenePropyleneParaffin waxCaustic sodaQuicklimeHydrogenOxygen gasSulfuric acidAmmoniaMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineNitric acidPara-xyleneEthylene glycolBenzeneCarbon dioxideToluene