What are power cables made of?
Power cables take copper wire, polyethylene and PVC directly. Trace them back and you pass 16 made things on the way to 10 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 10 raw materials
- Water through PVC
- Copper ore through copper wire, copper
- Air through copper wire, copper
- Natural gas through PVC, ethylene
- Rock salt through PVC, chlorine
- Iron ore through PVC, pigment
- Sulfur through PVC, pigment
- Crude oil through PVC, pigment, carbon black
- Titanium ore through PVC, pigment, titanium dioxide
- Coal through PVC, pigment, titanium dioxide, coke