What is tungsten carbide made of?
Tungsten carbide takes tungsten, carbon black and cobalt directly. Trace them back and you pass 10 made things on the way to 11 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 11 raw materials
- Tungsten ore through tungsten
- Crude oil through carbon black
- Air through carbon black
- Water through carbon black
- Cobalt ore through cobalt
- Natural gas through tungsten, hydrogen
- Sulfur through cobalt, sulfuric acid
- Coal through cobalt, aluminum
- Bauxite through cobalt, aluminum, alumina
- Rock salt through cobalt, aluminum, alumina, caustic soda
- Limestone through cobalt, aluminum, alumina, quicklime