What is optical fiber made of?
Optical fiber takes glass, oxygen gas and germanium directly. Trace them back and you pass 13 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Silica sand through glass
- Limestone through glass
- Air through oxygen gas
- Zinc ore through germanium
- Rock salt through glass, soda ash
- Water through glass, soda ash
- Trona through glass, soda ash
- Sulfur through germanium, sulfuric acid
- Natural gas through germanium, hydrogen
- Corn through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses