What are car batteries made of?
Car batteries take lead, sulfuric acid, polyethylene, polypropylene and water directly. Trace them back and you pass 10 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Lead ore through lead
- Sulfur through sulfuric acid
- Air through sulfuric acid
- Coal through lead, coke
- Zinc ore through lead, zinc
- Natural gas through polyethylene, ethylene
- Crude oil through polypropylene, propylene