What is stainless steel made of?
Stainless steel takes steel scrap, chromium, nickel, oxygen gas and argon directly. Trace them back and you pass 18 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Chromite through chromium
- Limestone through chromium
- Air through argon
- Water through chromium
- Nickel ore through nickel
- Natural gas through steel scrap, propane
- Crude oil through steel scrap, propane
- Coal through chromium, aluminum
- Rock salt through chromium, soda ash
- Trona through chromium, soda ash
- Sulfur through nickel, sulfuric acid
- Corn through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses