What are staplers made of?
Staplers take steel wire, sheet steel, steel, plastic, paint and vulcanized rubber directly. Trace them back and you pass 34 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Natural gas through plastic
- Water through paint
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Air through sheet steel, zinc
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Crude oil through plastic, propylene
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
Made along the way: 28 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 19
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaEthylenePropyleneTitanium dioxidePigmentCarbon blackSulfuric acidPropaneHydrogenChlorineAmmoniaMethanolBenzeneStyreneCharcoalToluene