What is silicone made of?
Silicone takes metallurgical silicon, methanol, hydrochloric acid, water and silica sand directly. Trace them back and you pass 8 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Silica sand goes straight in
- Quartz through metallurgical silicon
- Coal through metallurgical silicon
- Timber through metallurgical silicon
- Natural gas through methanol
- Rock salt through hydrochloric acid, chlorine
- Sulfur through hydrochloric acid, chlorine, sulfuric acid
- Air through hydrochloric acid, chlorine, sulfuric acid