What are paperclips made of?
Paperclips take steel wire directly. Trace them back and you pass 14 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
How paperclips are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Iron ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel wire, steel, quicklime
- Air through steel wire, steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel wire, steel, magnesium
- Water through steel wire, steel, quicklime
- Manganese ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Coal through steel wire, steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through steel wire, steel, steel scrap, propane
- Sulfur through steel wire, steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
Made along the way: 13 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 6
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.