What are saxophones made of?
Saxophones take brass, steel, solder, silver, lacquer and leather directly. Trace them back and you pass 39 made things on the way to 25 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 25 raw materials
- Silver ore through silver
- Lead ore through silver
- Zinc ore through silver
- Copper ore through silver
- Cattle hide through leather
- Rock salt through leather
- Water through leather
- Air through silver, zinc
- Tin ore through solder, tin
- Crude oil through brass, aluminum
- Coal through brass, aluminum
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through leather, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Sulfur through silver, sulfuric acid
- Corn through lacquer, ethanol
- Sugarcane through lacquer, ethanol
- Chromite through leather, chromium
- Bauxite through brass, aluminum, alumina
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Trona through leather, chromium, soda ash
- Sugar beet through lacquer, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 33 things
Metals 12
Chemicals and fuels 17
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonSulfuric acidEthanolPetroleum cokePropaneEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaMethanolSoda ashCaustic sodaCharcoalNaphthaCarbon dioxideHydrogen