What are ceiling fans made of?
Ceiling fans take sheet steel, copper wire, aluminum, printed circuit board, plywood and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 57 made things on the way to 25 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 25 raw materials
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Timber through plywood
- Water through paint
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Air through sheet steel, zinc
- Copper ore through printed circuit board, copper
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Silica sand through printed circuit board, fiberglass
- Limestone through printed circuit board, fiberglass
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Dolomite through sheet steel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through sheet steel, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through paint, acrylic, methanol
- Rock salt through printed circuit board, epoxy, chlorine
- Trona through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash
- Tin ore through printed circuit board, solder, tin
- Lead ore through printed circuit board, solder, silver
- Silver ore through printed circuit board, solder, silver
- Quartz through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Corn through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 51 things
Metals 13
Chemicals and fuels 28
Petroleum cokeAdhesiveTitanium dioxidePigmentOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonSulfuric acidCaustic sodaSoda ashPhenolPropyleneAcetoneChlorineParaffin waxCarbon blackAmmoniaMethanolPropaneCarbon dioxideBenzeneNaphthaFormaldehydeEthyleneNitric acidHydrogenCharcoalToluene