What are gas cylinders made of?
Gas cylinders take steel, brass and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 33 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Water through paint
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Copper ore through brass, copper
- Zinc ore through brass, zinc
- Lead ore through brass, lead
- Tin ore through brass, tin
- Crude oil through brass, aluminum
- Coal through brass, aluminum
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Bauxite through brass, aluminum, alumina
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
Made along the way: 30 things
Metals 11
Chemicals and fuels 17
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonTitanium dioxidePigmentPropaneSulfuric acidPetroleum cokeChlorineCarbon blackPropyleneAmmoniaMethanolCharcoalCaustic sodaNaphthaHydrogen