What are camera sensors made of?
Camera sensors take silicon wafer, copper and glass directly. Trace them back and you pass 20 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Quartz through silicon wafer
- Copper ore through copper
- Water through copper
- Air through copper
- Silica sand through glass
- Limestone through glass
- Sulfur through copper, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through glass, soda ash
- Trona through glass, soda ash
- Coal through silicon wafer, polysilicon, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through silicon wafer, polysilicon, metallurgical silicon
- Natural gas through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Corn through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 17 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 11
ArgonOxygen gasSulfuric acidSoda ashHydrochloric acidHydrogenAmmoniaCarbon dioxideQuicklimeCharcoalChlorine