What are padlocks made of?
Padlocks take sheet steel, copper, tin, steel, brass and coil spring directly. Trace them back and you pass 36 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Copper ore through copper
- Water through copper
- Air through copper
- Tin ore through tin
- Zinc ore through brass, zinc
- Sulfur through copper, sulfuric acid
- Coal through tin, coke
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Lead ore through brass, lead
- Crude oil through brass, aluminum
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Bauxite through brass, aluminum, alumina
- Titanium ore through coil spring, paint, titanium dioxide
- Rock salt through brass, aluminum, alumina, caustic soda
Made along the way: 30 things
Metals 10
Chemicals and fuels 18
Oxygen gasSulfuric acidQuicklimeArgonPaintPropanePetroleum cokeTitanium dioxidePigmentCharcoalCaustic sodaChlorineCarbon blackPropyleneAmmoniaMethanolNaphthaHydrogen