What are scissors made of?
Scissors take steel, screw and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 27 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Water through paint
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Zinc ore through screw, zinc
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through paint, pigment, carbon black
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
Made along the way: 24 things
Metals 7
Chemicals and fuels 15
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonTitanium dioxidePigmentPropaneSulfuric acidChlorineCarbon blackPropyleneAmmoniaMethanolCharcoalNaphthaHydrogen