What are pinball machines made of?
Pinball machines take copper wire, plywood, adhesive, printed circuit board and LED directly. Trace them back and you pass 45 made things on the way to 21 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 21 raw materials
- Timber through plywood
- Water through adhesive
- Copper ore through printed circuit board, copper
- Air through printed circuit board, copper
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Silica sand through printed circuit board, fiberglass
- Limestone through printed circuit board, fiberglass
- Bauxite through LED, gallium
- Zinc ore through LED, indium
- Natural gas through LED, plastic
- Gold ore through LED, gold
- Sulfur through printed circuit board, copper, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through printed circuit board, epoxy, caustic soda
- Trona through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash
- Tin ore through printed circuit board, solder, tin
- Lead ore through printed circuit board, solder, silver
- Silver ore through printed circuit board, solder, silver
- Corn through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Coal through printed circuit board, solder, lead, coke
- Sugarcane through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 40 things
Metals 8
Chemicals and fuels 20
Paraffin waxAmmoniaHydrogenOxygen gasSulfuric acidEthylenePropyleneMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidSoda ashQuicklimeNaphthaBenzeneCarbon dioxideFormaldehydeToluene