What are spark plugs made of?
Spark plugs take alumina, steel, nickel and copper directly. Trace them back and you pass 17 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Bauxite through alumina
- Water through copper
- Nickel ore through nickel
- Copper ore through copper
- Air through copper
- Rock salt through alumina, caustic soda
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Sulfur through copper, sulfuric acid
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through steel, steel scrap, propane