What are elevators made of?
Elevators take 8 things directly, among them steel, wire rope, sheet steel, stainless steel, electric motor and ball bearing. Trace them back and you pass 52 made things on the way to 26 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 26 raw materials
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through stainless steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Water through steel, quicklime
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Chromite through stainless steel, chromium
- Nickel ore through stainless steel, nickel
- Copper ore through copper wire, copper
- Silica sand through printed circuit board, fiberglass
- Coal through stainless steel, chromium, aluminum
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through printed circuit board, epoxy, propylene
- Sulfur through steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash
- Trona through stainless steel, chromium, 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
- Corn through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through stainless steel, chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 44 things
Metals 16
Pig ironMagnesiumSteel scrapManganeseSteel wireZincChromiumNickelCopperSolderCokeAluminumTinLeadSilverAlumina
Chemicals and fuels 21
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonPropaneSulfuric acidSoda ashPhenolPropyleneAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaCharcoalAmmoniaCarbon dioxidePetroleum cokeBenzeneNaphthaFormaldehydeHydrogenTolueneMethanol