What are car engines made of?
Car engines take pig iron, aluminum, silica sand, steel and gasoline directly. Trace them back and you pass 24 made things on the way to 18 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 18 raw materials
- Silica sand goes straight in
- Iron ore through pig iron
- Limestone through pig iron
- Air through pig iron
- Crude oil through gasoline
- Coal through aluminum
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Water through aluminum, alumina
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Corn through gasoline, ethanol
- Sugarcane through gasoline, ethanol
- Rock salt through aluminum, alumina, caustic soda
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sulfur through steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
- Sugar beet through gasoline, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 20 things
Metals 5
Chemicals and fuels 12
Petroleum cokeOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaHydrogenEthanolCaustic sodaPropaneSulfuric acidEthyleneCharcoal