What are drill bits made of?
Drill bits take steel, tungsten and titanium directly. Trace them back and you pass 17 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Tungsten ore through tungsten
- Titanium ore through titanium
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through titanium, argon
- Dolomite through titanium, magnesium
- Water through steel, quicklime
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Rock salt through titanium, chlorine
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through titanium, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through titanium, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through steel, steel scrap, propane
- Sulfur through steel, manganese, sulfuric acid