What are guitar strings made of?
Guitar strings take steel wire, bronze and brass directly. Trace them back and you pass 24 made things on the way to 18 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 18 raw materials
- Copper ore through brass, copper
- Water through brass, copper
- Air through brass, copper
- Tin ore through brass, tin
- Zinc ore through brass, zinc
- Lead ore through brass, lead
- Crude oil through brass, aluminum
- Coal through brass, aluminum
- Iron ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel wire, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel wire, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Sulfur through brass, copper, sulfuric acid
- Bauxite through brass, aluminum, alumina
- Quartz through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Rock salt through brass, aluminum, alumina, caustic soda