What are pocket lighters made of?
Pocket lighters take 7 things directly, among them plastic, steel wire, sheet steel, aluminum, brass and coil spring. Trace them back and you pass 49 made things on the way to 25 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 25 raw materials
- Natural gas through plastic
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Water through ink
- Zinc ore through brass, zinc
- Air through brass, zinc
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Copper ore through brass, copper
- Lead ore through brass, lead
- Tin ore through brass, tin
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Limestone through sheet steel, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through sheet steel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through sheet steel, steel, manganese
- Rock salt through ink, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Quartz through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 42 things
Metals 11
Chemicals and fuels 25
NaphthaEthylenePropylenePetroleum cokePaintCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolHydrogenOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonSulfuric acidCaustic sodaHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorinePropaneAmmoniaMethanolBenzeneCharcoalToluene