What are safety pins made of?
Safety pins take steel wire, sheet steel, nickel and chromium directly. Trace them back and you pass 27 made things on the way to 21 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 21 raw materials
- Nickel ore through nickel
- Chromite through chromium
- Limestone through chromium
- Air through chromium
- Water through chromium
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Sulfur through nickel, sulfuric acid
- Coal through chromium, aluminum
- Rock salt through chromium, soda ash
- Trona through chromium, soda ash
- Crude oil through chromium, aluminum
- Iron ore through sheet steel, steel, manganese
- Dolomite through sheet steel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through sheet steel, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Corn through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Quartz through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sugarcane through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 23 things
Metals 9
Chemicals and fuels 11
Sulfuric acidSoda ashOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonAmmoniaCarbon dioxidePetroleum cokePropaneCaustic sodaCharcoal