What are electric motors made of?
Electric motors take sheet steel, copper wire, epoxy, ball bearing and steel directly. Trace them back and you pass 29 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Air through sheet steel, zinc
- Copper ore through copper wire, copper
- Water through copper wire, copper
- Crude oil through epoxy, propylene
- Rock salt through epoxy, caustic soda
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Sulfur through sheet steel, zinc, sulfuric acid
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 24 things
Metals 8
Chemicals and fuels 15
PhenolPropyleneAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonSulfuric acidBenzeneNaphthaPropaneHydrogenTolueneCharcoal