What are nails made of?
Nails take steel wire, zinc and adhesive directly. Trace them back and you pass 34 made things on the way to 14 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 14 raw materials
- Zinc ore through zinc
- Air through zinc
- Water through adhesive
- Sulfur through zinc, sulfuric acid
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Iron ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel wire, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel wire, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Coal through steel wire, steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 31 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 20
Sulfuric acidParaffin waxOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenPropaneNaphthaBenzeneCharcoalToluene